“Possessing these books has become all important to me, because I have become jealous of the past.”

“The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.”

“When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.”

“The past year and a half has been really transitional for me, just personally, as well as transitioning into becoming a woman.”

“Each of us is the result of his past. The important thing is that you never become a prisoner of it. Never.”

“Never has the future become so rapidly the past.”

“The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.”

“Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.”

“When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.”

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”