“Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.”

“Each life makes its own imitation of immortality.”

“Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.”

“How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.”

“Oh Christ, I left my world to watch a kid put shoes on a fucked-up weasel. Shoot me Roland, before I breed.”

“Get on before I blow you lose of your shoes and give your fathers cause to celebrate!”

“You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.”