The alcohol situation was downright distressing.

It's all lights, action, sad-eyed children selling trinkets, and calls for sex shows, tuk-tuks, dinner you don't want.

When someone asks you, “Would you do it again?”, you huff up your chest, strike an air of bravado, and reply with a resounding “Maybe.”

How many weeks of the year, he said, do you have to work in order to pay for something that you don't need or want?

“I always think of that scene in ‘Wizard of Oz’ where it’s like, don’t look at that man behind the curtain.”

You grip her love like a driver's license.

“It doesn’t look fucking good. I don’t think a lot of teenagers [today] sit back and think, ‘Why am I on Earth?’ And maybe teenagers never asked that, but I look back at my parents when they were young and I think, ‘Holy shit, look what that generation accomplished.’ I just don’t see the same for this one.”