People take conventional ways that other people have always decorated their cars, and use them as ways of giving other people permission to approach them.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.

Don't do this. I love you. Don't shut me out.

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.