When you're immersed in something, you can't look away from it.

Sympathy feels like a performative word, whereas empathy is human.

We used to say a movie could never come close to a book, but no one reads books anymore.

You can turn the sphere for a cutting point, but if you're really just existing in the 180, cutting is much easier. If you're existing in a 360 space, it gets more complex.

The more you populate the 360-degree space, the more difficult it is to cut within that.

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

You know what I regret the most?” Trinity says, her voice just above a whisper. I don’t answer. All I can think about is how crappy it is that my fourteen-year-old sister already has regrets.

The pursuit of truth will set you free even if you never catch up with it.

I think it's actually kind of sweet how there is a reciprocal effect that our stories can have on each other.

Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.

What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think; I don't need or want anything to change that.

Life is long if you know how to use it.

I do believe in women. I really do.

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke.