There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the world as we find it. It's a tool of protection, but it can also be a tool of incision to get to some truth. But along the way maybe we've lost some of what I think of as the power of straightforward emotion and earnestness and seriousness.

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.

Not the brightest gem in the jewelry shop, but you've got to admire his single-minded dedication to drug abuse.

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.

So why don't you go home for vacations?' I asked her. I'm just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.