Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.

If your words're true, they're armed.

Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.

Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.