I am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we’ve finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here.” “I’m not interested in a ‘racket.’ I’m an academic.” “That’s okay, Unc. I won’t hold it against you.

Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. “Not interested. Love’s messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans.

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.

Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell

I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.

Judge not, lest ye be judged.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.