You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create.

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.