He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.