"You know at a concert how everybody surges forward when the artist comes on stage? We take two steps back."

"To say I built a twin phone booth would be misleading."

"The barns groan, hundreds of cows chewing and shitting and sleeping and bellowing and humping. Not a lot of people know the cows hump."

"I always find her, and all the hope settles in the soles of my feet, weighing me down until I can’t lift my legs."

On keeping things fun as possible, for long as possible.

"Jeff: am I still too old to claim I’m too young, to keep anything from going wrong?"

"But we work with what we got, and sometimes, the only light we have is projecting blood and sex in a celluloid showcase."

"This is all I ever wanted, really: to be Lou Reed, tripping on disco biscuits, holding all of history rapt in a mirrorball shadow."

"Love, so ordinary it stars every song. It’s boring, how every couple in love thinks they invented it."

"We don’t dissolve, disasters can’t touch us, ‘O Captain! My Captain!’, like we know The Way, we aim for the sky and we’ll live forever."

"Here I am, the lovesick blues boy, singing the same old tune, the one with all the suffering in it."

On launching, gratitude, and honouring our influences.

"The sex club opens its jaws—human-sized plastic fangs and a whiplash leather tongue out of concrete—swallowing the two new friends whole."

"Death makes mothers out of daughters. Anyone can switch places, switch realms, switch lives at any time."

"The city sprawled before him and for the first time, he felt a total lack of object permanence."

"Porno Jim delivered me a pint glass full of whiskey, fixed the levels, told me to calm down and just watch the colors."

"I am there to hold him. We are in a swell of time where what he needs and what I yearn to give are the same. We connect."

"How it did or didn’t make you think of home, or how it carried you away in a swarm of language and feeling and magic and wonder."

Thank you for giving a fuck enough to read this.