I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'

Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on the sand at the goddam Jersey shore and then turn down a woman with three kids hanging on by her fingernails.

I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.

My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.

There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.