"They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it."

"If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it."

"Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned"

"ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN."

"This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love."

"Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts."

"My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving."

"You're breaking out of character, again."

"Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole."

"Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage."

"But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be."

"What is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?"

"Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?"

"He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her."

"He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?"

"Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are."

"I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run."

"But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes."

"We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun."

"You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently."

"Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light."

"My feeling is that if you're not self-obsessed you're probably boring."

"We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day."

"This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable."