I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.

I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than you realize.

But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.

Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.

"I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind."

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.