I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events.

We're all going overnight express delivery straight to Hell.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.

Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.