“We, each of us, can take control of the world.”

“Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead.Probably that goes for anybody in the world.”

“If we can forgive what’s been done to us . . .If we can forgive what we’ve done to others . . . If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.”

“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.”

“Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?”

“Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.”

“You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”