“If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.”

“Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.”

“If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.”

“If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.”

“I see the difference now, between loving someone from afar and loving someone up close. When you see them up close, you see the real them, but they also get to see the real you.”

“Everybody looks a little crazy if you're looking close enough and if you can't look that close, then you don't really love them.”

“Imagine you are sucking the little fingers of a lady… or… no, you wouldn't understand that -- since you'd never get that close to a lady -- who'd want to get that close to you for God's sake?”

“In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.”

“It really kind of sucked to be close to someone for so long and then suddenly not be anything anymore.”

“Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.”