I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

People who don't want to get on with their lives, and don't want to accept responsibility for the direction of their lives want to hang out with other people who don't want to accept responsibility or move on, and so you find that your entire culture around you are people who are just like you, because that's what's comforting.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.

you're doomed at being you.

There are only patterns. Patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns, patterns hidden by patterns, patterns within patterns.