She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

Songs are as sad as the listener.

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand...... But until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a nonapproximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. Ifactifice is one such word.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.