“I see the beginning, I see the end. And in the middle I just hope I don't fall on my ass to much”

“The Beginning of the End can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it. When I was a kid I couldn't see any of these ridges. It was only after Swamplandia!'s fall that time folded into a story with a beginning, a middle, and an ending. If you're short on time, that would be the two-word version of our story: we fell.”

“I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.”

“In the middle I want to be at the end, at the end I want to be in the beginning, and in the beginning I want to be in bed.”

“I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.”

“INEZ: What's the matter?ESTELLE: I feel so queer. Don't you ever get taken that way? When I can't see myself I begin to wonder if I really and truly exist. I pat myself just to make sure, but it doesn't help much.”