I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.

I couldn’t live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.

You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.

I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.

Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

It is hard to give up what you know for what you don’t know.