But of course, the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another.

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.

Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down—or up, I suppose—replacing other people in the process.

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

I eat 'The Walking Dead' like its made of brains. Can't even watch the show, I love the book so much.

Keep behind, and you shall be put in front; keep out, and you shall be kept in.

I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.

As for George Bush of Kennebunkport, Maine- personally I think he's further evidence that the Great Scriptwriter in the Sky has an overdeveloped sense of irony.

You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]

Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.

There's this sort of migration west at the moment, a sort of energy that's definitely moving to LA.

I had five great years at Liverpool and I would rather just keep that memory as it is.