“Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.”

“Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.”

“You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff”

“The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.”

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

“If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.”

“Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.”

“Gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you're looking for. If you're picking raspberries, you see only what's red, and if you're looking for bones you see only the white. No matter where you go, the only thing you see is bones.”

“The only thing true about what you just said was the storybook damsel part - and that only because you're pretty enough to be one.”

“You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life”