"if you don't like your situation, then change it. if you can't change it, then leave it. it's your fucking life, man."
"i'll take care of you. or you take care of me. whatever."
"she was inscrutable, dreamy, capricious, decietful and totally selfish."
"everything from me to you is a compliment. no matter what it sounds like."
"you're not bad. you're just innocent. innocent people are just dangerous."
"we should never have let the world in. i wish it could be just us, like it was before."
"i'm glad i got to know you for such a long time."
"when you die, i'm gonna die."
"i swear, i solemnly believe that humanity is now officially descending a ladder of evolution. in a thousand years, human beings will be the size of gerbils, and they'll have one thought a year, in december. they'll think about what they want for christmas."
"a whole nation. a whole fucken world of plastic houses."
"thirty years, there won't be anything left that isn't surburbia or the ghettos. because they all want to live in places with people exactly like themselves."
"decline and rot, my angel. that's the way of the world. except for you. you are excempt. remember that."
"once, there was a girl. she lived in a little, tiny house. and one day, an ox came by. and the girl was so polite, she said: “ox, would you care to join me for tea?” the ox, he wasn’t used to being spoken to very much. he was flattered and said, “thank you, yes. ” and he proceeded to put his nose through the door. his nose had a big ring in it. And the girl pulled as hard as she could on the ring to try to get the ox through the door. and the ox pushed and pushed. and the girl pulled and pulled. cracks started to appear around the walls. and the ox gave one great, almighty push and the whole house collapsed around them. so she climbed up on the ox’s back and they rode away together. in the course of time they were married."
"it wasn't what you see in the movies. we weren't painting ourselves orange and shaking tambourines or whatever else they got up to then. we were trying to rebuild society on a small scale."
"it was about something different, i know it was. but i can't remember, god forgive me. i can't remember what it was."
"it's not his fault. everything's for sale. everything."