You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.

The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

Fertility says, "Can you relax and just let things happen?" I ask, does she mean, like disasters, like pain, like misery? Can I just let all that happen? "And Joy," she says, "and Serenity, and Happiness, and Contentment." She says all the wings of the Columbia Memorial Mausoleum. "You don't have to control everything," she says. "You can't control everything." But you can be ready for disaster. A sign goes by saying, Buckle Up. "If you worry about disaster all of the time, that's what you are going to get," Fertility says.

I will never write a sequel to anything that I will ever write.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.