“I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life”

“And here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice.”

“Please never say again that I wanted to be rid of Felix, I am getting frantic here … When I get out I 'want' Felix terribly, but I don't want to take him away from you.”

“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.”

“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”

“You're the reason I get out of bed every night. And you're the reason I can't wait to come home every dawn. Not the war. Not the Brothers. Not even Butch. It's… you.”

“I don’t need to be motivated to write; it’s always there waiting to get out. Published or not.”

“Tell my friends to get me out of here.”

“You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream, you've got to get out there and make it happen yourself.”

“Use the negative to get into the positive, don't wait for the positive to get you out of the negative.”