我是个幸存者。我就像蟑螂，你就是摆脱不了我。

"A moment is sucked away and distorted, often even at the time of its birth."

I think the most important thing in life is to be able to look at yourself in the mirror and like what you see.

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."