Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?

A comedy ends with a wedding, and a tragedy ends with a funeral: you always have to juxtapose sex and death.

I'm in love. So kill me.

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

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.

I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.

We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.