“you gotta get to it if you wanna get through it”

“Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.”

“Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.”

“You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out" - Murray (WN 285).”

“You know the hurt is coming, but there's this reprieve just long enough to get your hopes up, to make you think that maybe, just maybe, this time you dodged it. But then it comes anyway.”

“Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.”

“Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.”