“The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.”

“I didn't know who I was any longer, so I just was.”

“It was all fine until the girls started drinking. (Everything is always fine up until that point.)”

“We were not actually famous, I have to add. People were just drunk.”

“If you have to push yourself to do it, should you be doing it in the first place? That was a question I never dared to asked myself.”

“If that was the last event of the night, it would have made a terrible ending. It was just the beginning, though.”

“Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.”

“In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.”

“There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except...”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”

“Peace of mind is the power in the moment.”

“Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits th...”

“Only the weak in spirit causes others pain.”