...I've just been feeling insecure since I was 20, and that's all I've been trying to express. Now the entire world is feeling insecure.

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.

Writing talent is similar to the art of chatting up a girl. You can improve to a certain degree through practice, but basically you are either born with it or you aren't.

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said.