“Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.”

“At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.”

“A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.”

“The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.”

“Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.”

“Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.”

“Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.”