“we're responsible for our own lives.”

“We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.”

“What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.”

“..one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture form, and where it all begins.”

“Free will. It sucks because it means we're responsible for our actions. There is no destiny, just difficult decisions.”

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”