“the request sheet is full of David Bowie”

“A teen stripper amputee emerges from the curtains with a pasty on the end of her “nub””

“capable of loving beyond the categories of sexuality and gender”

“why do we break each other? Is it like cutting hair off dolls?”

“a faith in all things punk, in a city set to destroy itself”

“Either elaborate or eliminate.”

“a possibly better way of being a person, without sacrificing the fart jokes”

“playful and eccentric, there is always an underlying darkness”

“That was better than therapy”

“The writing is pretty terrific even as the sex gets tedious”

“I’m full of bad ideas, mostly
when my ear is to the universe”

“The album has some lofty ambitions, and wears its servo-heart on its shiny sleeve”

“the context of our lives wrapped up in the bow of fiction”

“day-glo yellow to Krylon-haze orange to highway-flare pink”

“an upbeat, time pattern-shifting eruption”

“It is somber but not sad, the loss finding many forms”

“More rides, after which puking was inevitable”

“well-oiled war machine, setting fire to all that stands in its path”

“Havok dedicates so much of the book to scrupulously describing sex”