“You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.”
“You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.”
“Remake the wild, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world. You cannot wait for anyone else, even a god, to do that for you.”
“People, especially some religious people. would have us believe that it is wrong . even a sin, to love oneself. It is not. It is the basic, essential love. If you do not love yourself, you cannot possibly love anyone else. Not fully and truly.”
“It was the first time I'd ever felt truly jealous of anyone else in my entire life.”
“you do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them.”