Once I've been told that college is fun, a mixture of education and pleasure. I really don't understand where the F did they brought this conclusion from.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

As you always discover when you make something, typically if your object isn't frivolous, people's relationship to it isn't frivolous.

Why must I be lonely in love?

I like creating beauty out of scary things.

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.

If I had someone buttering me up, maybe I'd have worked out. You don't even know where I came from. Nobody wants to come out here.

Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise.

All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.

I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.