“Adulthood isn’t an award they’ll give you for being a good child.”

“If you are stupid they’ll humiliate you, if you’re wise they’ll hate you, if you’re beautiful they’ll kill you, and nor the virtues nor the weaknesses of a woman are ever forgiven. Men are blind of rage for being born as monsters, for not being capable to be loved and to love themselves.”

“But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.”

“They’ll stone ya and then they’ll say, “good luck””

“Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.”

“A broken human being isn’t even a good tool.”

“I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?”

“When you argue with a child," she said warmly, "you give a good argument and the child says yah, yah! You understand him and he doesn't listen, so the child wins.”

“As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.”

“Please, I'd love to meet the guy you couldn't handle, and give him and award.”