“I forgive the wrecked dreams,”

“The bookstore was a wreck. much hadn't been a dream. I began to stand and stopped, realizing there was a sheet of paper taped to my coat. Dazedly, I pulled it off.”

“The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.”

“Forgive me, that I manage badly,
Manage badly but live gloriously,
That I leave traces of myself in my songs,
That I appeared to you in waking dreams.”

“Candles forgive fire, rivers forgive the sea, age forgives time, life forgives death. But can I forgive your passing?”

“I started taking cocaine and drink … I turned into a babbling fucking wreck.”

“Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean.”

“You're a train wreck, but I wouldn't love you if you changed.”

“If I can't forgive him, the Lord won’t forgive me.”

“Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.”