“A word to the unwise.Torch every book.Char every page.Burn every word to ash.Ideas are incombustible.And therein lies your real fear.”

“Scientists say every action initiates an equal and opposite reaction. I say that's just the start. I say every action initiates a most unequal and upredictable chain reaction, that every filament of living becomes part of a larger weave, while remaining identifiable. That every line of latitude requires several stripes of longitude to obtain meaning. That every universe is part of a bigger heaven, a heaven of rhythm and geometry, where a heartbeat is the apex of a triangle.”

“Hell isn’t some fiery pit “down there.” It’s right here on Earth, in every dirty city, every yawning town.”

“Every high has an equal, measurable low.”

“And if candor strikes to forcefully,step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angleyour words must takebefore you open your mouth, let them leak out. Because once you tilt the truth,it becomes a lie.”

“Girls are impossible to satisfy." "Not every girl." Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.”

“Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?”