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

There's worse that people can steal from you than money.

Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.

I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.

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.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?