“The trouble with you John, is that your spine does not reach your brain.”

“Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.”

“My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.”

“You do what you have to do or a bigger demon eats out your liver and uses your spine to pick its teeth. (Caleb)”

“What profit is there in crossing the sea and in going from one city to another? If you would escape your troubles, you need not another place but another personality. Perhaps you have reached Athens, or perhaps Rhodes; choose any state you fancy, how does it matter what its character may be? You will be bringing to it your own.”

“We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.”

“Follow your heart but take your brain with you.”

“The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff… and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?”

“It does something to your brain which is odd… you have to work really hard not to be a real d**k (in personal life).”

“I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.”