It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort.

The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them.

Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.

I sometimes give myself excellent advice. Occasionally, I even listen to it.

I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.

...It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?