·“Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or pet. Take up dancing to forget.”
· “…and said to yourself in the bathroom, I am not the favorite child.”
· “…you're trapped in your overturned body under a blanket or burning car, and the red flame is seeping out of you and igniting the tarmac beside you head or else the floor, or else the pillow, none of us is; or else we all are.”