“And sometime around 2 AM you end up taking advantage of yourself. Ain't no way around that. Making a scene with a magazine.”

“Sometimes you need to lie make the world go around”

“It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112”

“People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it’s the only way you’ll get anywhere. We’re not going to sit around and wait and just be happy if something turns up. We are ambitious. You have to be.”

“What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.”

“Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.”

“Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.”

“It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.”

“If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.”

“If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.”