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We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ...

Why'd you call, boy? What did you want from me?"
"The company of a friend, I think."
"Always a cheap treat.

Rina's always claimed that I expect too little from life," Standard said.
"Then at least you'll never be disappointed.

The whole city was a compass. How could anyone ever have gotten so hopelessly lost here?

Closure is for jars, books, and closet doors.

That you're Borges.' Manny laughed. 'Of course you are, you dumb shit. That's the whole point.

Change yourself, you change the world?

Father, the dark moths crouch at the sills of the earth, waiting.

He drove. That was what he did. What he'd always do.

I drive. That's what I do. All I do.

My old man was eighty-six per cent white bread and a hundred per cent asshole.

Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.

We're professionals. People make deals, they need to stick to them. That's the way it works, if it's going to work at all.

Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

The dam of my eyes broke, and tears flooded the land.

Something radically new, the producer tells me. Think Virginia Woolf with dead bodies and car chases.

Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors.

You're not very good at this, are you?'
'At what I do, I'm the best. This isn't what I do.

Growing ever smaller in the distance. Carrying that pain and sadness back with her to the lair where it, and she, lived.

Some brainless comedy where actors with perfect white teeth spoke their lines then froze in place to let the laugh track unwind.

Everything's interesting. You just have to look closely."
"And most people don't.

The things we do pile up on us, weigh us down. Or hold us in place, at very least.

First thing you do, room, bar, restaurant, town or crib, is check and memorize the ways out.

Time went by, which is what time does, what it is.