“I am never going to get better at being a good person. I am always going to be the blood and shit of things.”

“This is never going to be over,” I shout. “Someone will always be after me. There’s always consequences. Well, BRING IT. I am done with being afraid, and I am done with you.”

“I am never, ever, going to make things easy for you, Seaweed Brain. Get used to it.”

“Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.... So we kid ourselves about death.... But there's a better approach. To know you're going to dies, and to be prepared for it at any time....Do what the Buddhists do...ask, Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?”

“There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.”

“I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.”