“morality... comes at a price.”

“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.”

“As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family”

“To be angry implies you care”

“We liked to believe there is an alternate world, a better world, populated entirely by characters created by the yearnings of humanity--governing and inspiring themselves with all the lucidity wit which we rendered them.”

“A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.”

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