“Do what you love. Fuck everything else.”

“Sometimes when you're looking for an answer, you search everywhere else before you take a look at what's right in front of you.”

“Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?”

“Imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.”

“I think he'll accept the gospel in the next life," Afton said.Bobbi was stunned by the response."Afton, what do you mean?" she said. "That is the gospel.”

“I'd rather do something than read about it.""That's fine, but if you do it, and then can't think what it means, it's never much of a memory. Life has more to so with memories of the past and longings for the future than it ever does with *right now*.”

“What are mistakes?Is a mistake a fault in ones character causing them to do wrong because they are not knowledgeable enough for what is expected to be right? Or are mistakes opportunities to better ones self and learn what they do not know and to be able to progress into a more ethical person?”