The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill.

Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.

No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.

To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.

Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.