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

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.

He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.

Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.

People gravitate to what they believe to be popular... Technology is enabling even more of that.

Wait and hope!

A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.

A lie is a lie... unless your friends and family are in on it. Then it's a "commonly held belief."

A hungry stomach cannot hear.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

Business is a means- the only means- to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable.

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.