There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.
Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven.
That's when you stop being one way and start being another, Ruby said. Not something many people can do, or want to do. In fact, Ruby said, The only people who cross over, cross over because they're on some kind of Mission Impossible. I could no long...
All this family shit! Harry said. How can you reinvent your life if the original versions won't leave you alone?
The fates lead her who will; who won't they drag.
I was wounded by a blow of love.
Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.
Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.
Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.
Some people like to bitch, Rose said. Bitching is OK. But for me, I choose a kind of joy -- a lucid compulsion -- a polemical kind of fuck-you-motherfucker joy.
Life is absolutely, mysteriously beautiful.
God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?
