There seems to be no air in the air she breaths.

... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran with the bulls at Pamploma. Yes, you're a pissant who had no hair in your armpits until three years ago - but so what? If you don't start out too big for your britches, how are you gonna fill 'em when you grow up? Let it rip regardless of what anybody tells you, that's my idea; sit down an smoke that baby.

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.