The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.

Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

I have an artistic temperament, which is a really tragic thing.