Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

All hurt is brain hurt.

Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.

Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

Despite the modern equipment we sell, it's old money that funds it, and old money doesn't always have a modern brain attached to it.

Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledgefor mankind in polished speechesthat are no more than vaporous windsrustling the fallen leaves in autumn.

The sweet simplicity of the three percents.

There's an impression that actors make a lot of choices. I just take what's there.

Every human being is an artist

Larry's zombie bag was a nearly virulent green with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it. I was almost afraid to ask what his vampire bag looked like.

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.