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.

Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.

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 Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of morality and utter disbelief in cause and effect

Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.