“You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.”

“You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the drums so it sounds like the drummer is playing chords -- like the snare is in A or the hi-hat in D minor. You only notice the guitar when it's not there.”

“Some people are like "Oh, I hate guitars." How can you hate a guitar? It makes no sense. It's just an instrument.”

“It's you who are strange. Talking to you is like talking to someone who has no shadow.”

“An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.”

“You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.”

“She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.”

“All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.”

“Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.”

“You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”