No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

Believe in me and die forever.

Art never comes from happiness.

Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better.

Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out of time.

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.