Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we’ve seen can’t be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth.

He described the experience as being ’a little bit less fun, perhaps, than chain-smoking for ninety minutes while handcuffed to a dowager with asthma who used to teach Health and smells incontinent.

To win their battles, these kinds of underdogs rely on their own and one another’s ability to absorb violence. They find their might in their nature. They believe victory is assured by their nature, and as long as they act in accordance with their nature, they will claim it. Because they are able to fight, they must fight.

You only taste your own dignity right before you puke it up.

And that is why, when he finally did come across the street, I lit my cigarette with my lighter – not to make him feel like a fool who had fallen for a trick, but rather because he had said, ‘you had better luck with matches,’ when in fact I had not. It was not the matches that brought him across the street. It was the matches that kept him on the bench.

Since bad timing could mean almost anything, it was a certain kind of truth. A low kind.

If I’d thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much – the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose, you see.

If you know your mom is a great killer, and you think of your mom as a great killer, and you know she would kill for you, not just metaphorically, but really end lives for you, without hesitation, you don’t want to make her sad and worried because how can you repay her for all the things she’s willing to do? You can’t.

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The writers needed to have the freedom and breathing room to explore sexual topics. That's what the show dealt with.