A good story isn't the one that shuts everyone down and sort of leaves them in silent awe. A good story is one that, even before you finish the anecdote, you can see their eyes shining because it has so resonated with something from their own lives that everyone in the group has a version of the same story and they cannot wait to tell it, and that they're going to compete to make their version even more extreme than your version. So your version is just a seed.

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.

No matter what happens, it’s always now.

The weather today is partly angry, leading to resignation and ultimatums.