It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

Is it a democratic society that condemns people to the accident of conception? What are we-monkeys? If you expect people to be responsible for their children, you have to give them the right to choose whether or not to have children. What are you people thinking of? You're not only crazy! You're ogres!

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

You take every opportunity given you in this world, even if you have too many opportunities. One day, the opportunities stop, you know.

Keep passing the open windows.