"It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane."

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories."

"Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

"Maybe ever‘body in the whole damn world is scared of each other."