“If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?”

“Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.”

“Just being Tan-Tan, sometimes good, sometimes bad, mostly just getting by like everybody else.”

“It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead”

“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.”

“One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.”

“What is there in life except one's ideas.
Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
Is it ideas that I believe?”

“But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.”

“Sometimes, you didn’t get what you wanted. But if you had all you needed? Life was good.”

“… one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.”