After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!

Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.

When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

Amen' is like the Send button on an email.

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.

Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.

The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.

The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present.

God is my counselor .

Choice and perception are closely linked. They are unique, personal and emotional.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

I never force myself to dance or sing.

The trees like lungs filling with air. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.

He's on a mission of mercy to the new frontier, he's gonna check us all on out of here. Up to that mansion on a hill, where you can get your prescription filled.

I think I'm known as a liberal democrat and Hispanic and a practicing Catholic, but I never really went out of my way specifically to play a president or any kind of leader.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

Never let no one know how much dough you hold.