“All the drugs in the world won't save us from ourselves.”

“The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.”

“Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.”

“I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn’t want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the everyday world of morality. Guilt had become more a fear of getting caught than any sense of right or wrong.”

“Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that the suffering they were praying to be released from was a suffering they had imposed on themselves—and now us. The beast they lived in fear of was really themselves: It was man, not some mythological demon, that was going to destroy man in the end. And this beast had been created out of their fear.”

“Most of the world's problems could be avoided if people just said what they fucking meant.”

“That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.”