"The most crucial time in my own life was when I realized that I was not unique."

"Children, especially, are very good at knowing what's going on, and they will not forgive you for lying to them."

"One writes out of one thing only: one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one has examined one’s experience."

"The people who hurt you are not better than you. They are just luckier."

"The price one pays for refusing to be conscious is to remain a child."