The greatest weapon any warrior can carry into battle is absolute certainty of her eternal soul.

The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.