“Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.”

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

“Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.”

“To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.”

“We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.”

“Children sometimes know best and we chide them for being precocious. Then we grow aged and become again like children, and they call us wise.”

“I used to believe authenticity could be achieved solely by describing, in our own words, one's own fragment of experience. This was of course predicated on the complete intellectual and aesthetic independence of the "I". One eventually realizes such intellectual isolationism promotes style, ego, awards. But not change.”