“Here, need blurs the line between good and bad, and a constant promise of random violence sticks like humidity down your back.”

“Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.”

“Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.”

“Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.”

“Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it”

“And yet,from the air you think her peaceful and unflustered. On the ground is a place tangled with good intentions and a tyrannical will to live.”

“Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child”