First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

Angel says that rich people don't like to tolerate much. Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

For six months I couldn't sleep. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.