I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.

Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the smoke, and prepares to vacate the neighborhood, just like Ayrs and Jocasta. My worry is that the next war will be so big, nowhere with a decent restaurant will be left untouched.

Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.