she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.

Perhaps living in fear can drive all devils out of a person.

I like a bit of spunk in a lady

Also the fact that he's a guy. A girl screws around like Lotto and she's like diseased. Untouchable. But a guy can stick it to a million places and everyone just thinks he's doing what boys do.

Doomed people celebrate peace with sky bombs.

It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential.

Mathilde and Lotto held hands in the taxi going to brunch, communicating, not speaking.

What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did.

When your family dismisses you, like Lotto's did, you create your own family

Don't they understand what fiction is?

He got drunk as usual, but instead of drifting to sleep, he stayed up, and at a white heat, wrote what had been sitting on his heart for decades.

If depression was a choice, no one would choose it. Depression is not a choice.

Our lie is like a cancer that's spread to every single area of our lives.

Endure and preserve yourselves for better things.

I am Joe's Enraged, Inflamed, sense of rejection.

I keep things real simple because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back to that way of living.

Through interpretation, understanding; through understanding, appreciation; through appreciation, protection.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

It's just that I am too old now to chase all the woman involved; which just seems a shame.

You can't live with letting your feelings guide you, you'll get smooshed.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.