We buy balloons, we let them go.

History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad.

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.

The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.

My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.