I think that most of us [writers] would rather have an audience than countless riches. If we wanted to be rich, we'd be doing smething else.

Don't worry. Worry is useless. I worried anyway

Nothing is as boring as other people's dreams.

I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.

Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.

Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.