“They say no one reads anymore, but I find that's not the case. Prisoners read. I guess they're not given much access to computers. A felicitous injustice for me. The nicest reader letters I've rece...”

“I barely even know how I didn't feel. I didn't feel like reading a newspaper, or having a coffee, or going for a jog, or watching television. Nor did I feel like crying behind the boiler in the bas...”

“It's important to avoid mirrors if one is unprepared to accept their daily news, and I think, in something as insignificantly devastating as appearance, denial is more socially constructive than de...”

“A coffin... I'm in a coffin.The stories told to frighten children and old men, of warriors injured in battle and believed dead by their comrades, only to wake up buried six feet beneath the ground,...”

“Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.”

“Shed sworn she wouldnt end up like her little brother, but loneliness didnt arrive with flashing bulbs and a warning label. The descent was as simple and complex as a faked smile, white lies about ...”

“Stories exist to entertain and inspire us. Theyre merely veils of hope for when we see the ugliness of the world.”

“Stories exist to entertain and inspire us. They’re merely veils of hope for when we see the ugliness of the world.”

“The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obsceniti...”

“You and me, baby girl, we're too jaded. We just want mind-blowing sex with someone who knows we're fucked up and accepts it.”

“In this world, if you raise objections saying, my mother-in-law harasses me. My father-in-law harasses me, then there is no end to it. Instead, just put up a sign that says, no objection whatsoever...”