I had a cigarette for breakfast, just for beginners, Cried for my lunch, and sleep for dinner.

please, Tana, please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

Salutations; it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.

The great sickness and the grievous evil consist in this: that all the things that man finds written in books, he presumes to think of as true-and all the more so if the books are old.

You never know which gig is going to be your last.

The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.