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

“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.”

“First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.”

“As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.”

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

“Imagine how you’d feel if your whole life turned into a job you couldn’t stand.”

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