“Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.”

“It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.”

“Love means leaving yourself vulnerable, knowing that there is someone to catch you when you fall. ~ Mercy”

“Interviewer: Is that why you draw yourself as a cow?”

“Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?”

“Make a drawing. Start it all over again, trace it. Start it and trace it again.”

“Can I start by asking why your drawings abnormally suck?”

“If you make a decision in your life, even one as eminently logical and self-improving as "Why'd you start washing your hair every day?" and you start getting questioned hourly about it, you're going to start second-guessing yourself.”

“Why bother inflicting enormous pain on yourself when sooner or later Life would certainly get around to doing it for you?”

“Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.”