“In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.”

“We all choose things, and we also all choose against things. I want to be the kind of person who chooses for more than chooses against...”

“shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us”

“Aomame said, “It’s the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we’re choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everything’s decided in advance and we pretend we’re making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that.”

“We have chosen a different road. And in the end that is the point of escaping the cure: We are free to choose.We are even free to choose the wrong thing.”

“Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.”