"If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?"

"Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long."

"There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off."

"Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next."

"The stoutest timber is forged in the fiercest gales, not in the sheltered grove. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again."

"I think the materialist conception of history is valid."

"It is a humble truth that every scar carries the quiet memory of a battle faced and survived — an essential principle for the reflective life."