As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you.

Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up.

Anything that happens all at once is just as likely to unhappen all at once, you know?

I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.