To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control.

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.

Real smarts begin when you quit quoting other people.

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

With every lecture, you’re forced to look again at every choice you’ve made over the lesson-by-lesson chain of your entire life. And after all these years, you see how little you have to work with, how limited your life and education have been. How scant was your courage and curiosity. Not to mention your expectations.