“It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.”

“Once your decisions take on the impractical responsibility of validating the choices of others, your decisions cease to be your own.”

“Free will. It sucks because it means we're responsible for our actions. There is no destiny, just difficult decisions.”

“You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.”

“The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long as we aren’t infringing on their rights. Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free.”

“The art of one's own time tends to be formidable . . . because we have to learn how and where to take hold of it, what response is being asked of us, before we can get involved. It's truly new, and therefore truly a bit frightening.”