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

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.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

As young people we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world. That disaster is a car crash or a war. To make us sit still. It can be getting cancer or getting pregnant. The important part is how it seems to catch us by surprise. That disaster stops us from living the life we'd planned as children - a life of constant dashing around.

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.