"When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself."

"Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize."

"I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams."

"The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them."

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."

"Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone."