“The ambition of the original Frank had not died; it had grown subtler. It had become a wish to sample everything.”

“I wish the Queen had died the night before the Royal Jubilee – I wish she’d just fucking died. But they wouldn’t have been able to tell us that she’d died. They would have had to hollow out her body and get that guy who plays Gollum to wear it.”

“We've had 70 years of making records. Now, we sample them.”

“I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.”

“I wish I had an origin story for you. When I was four, I was bitten by a radioactive myth.”

“We had ambition, and ascended into Hell.”

“When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her.”

“I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it. ”

“But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.”

“All of us wish we had an Alice. I wish I had an Alice.”