“Life seemed nearest to acceptable at four A.M.”

“Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”

“Life's a shit sandwich, my ass. Life's a polka and don't you forget it!”

“She preferred to get high on life.”

“It is all connected Dominick," she said. "Life is not a series of isolated ponds & puddles; life is this river you see below, before you. It flows from the past through the present on it's way to the future.”

“Renovate your life, the old myths say, and the universe is yours.”

“I didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation--not even the clean, bandaged version of it. Instead, I looked at my own rough, stained house painter's hand. They seemed more like puppets than hands. I had no feelings in it either.”