“It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true- big things are often just small things that are noticed.”

“It's such a silly little thing, the heart.”

“your relationship with air—that’s key. You can’t break up with air. You’re kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can’t be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it.”

“See, because being Cool is obviously the most important thing on earth. It's more important than getting a job, or having a girlfriend, or political power, or money, because all those things are predicated by Coolness. They happen because of it. They depend on it.”

“And I'm not assuming and I'm not judging. I'm just being curious.”

“After college, I went through my own shit and decided that all physical suffering in the world couldn't compare to mental anguish. And when I got myself, I decided to help other people.”

“Like I'm on the verge of just blowing up. All the stress and pressure and anxiety just bubbling up.”

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.”

“It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true- big things are often just small things that are noticed.”

“When you mess something up, you learn for the next time.”

“I ask the nurse wrapping up her dispensing duties if I need any meds, and she says I'm not scheduled for any. I ask her if I can have some. She asks what I need them for. I tell her, to deal with this crazy place. She says if they had pills for that, they wouldn't need places like this in the first place, would they?”