"The goal is not to mourn the lost futures, but to use them as a resource for the struggle to come."

我不需要王冠来成为女王。

The novel is the most democratic of art forms because it belongs to the reader as much as to the writer.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.