“He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than his real life.”
“....faking his real life so he can live his fake one.”
“Real life isn’t like those comic books you love so much.”
“Billy lit a cigarette with a brand from the fire and laid the brand back He smoked. It looks a lot better from up here than it doesn down there, dont it?Yes. It does.There's a lot of things look better at a distance.Yeah?I think so.I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one.Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.”
“Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.”
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”