All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.

Live life as if it were created just for you.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's "Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.