Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.

Hope you're keeping the dust out of your eyes and your feet off the ground.

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.

The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.

I looked at my reflection in the rearview mirror. Some lipstick would go with this truck, I thought.

You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.

You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.