“It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.”

“Being wrong about important things is exhausting.”

“… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.”

“Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean!”

“It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.”

“Just accept as a fact that everyone of any emotional importance to you is related to everyone else of any emotional importance to you; these relationships need not extend to blood, of course, but the people who change your life emotionally - all those people, from different places, from different times, spanning many wholly unrelated coincidences - are nonetheless 'related'. We associate people with each other for emotional not for factual reasons - people who've never met each other, who don't even know each other exists; people, even, who have forgotten us.”

“You can't learn everything you need to know legally.”