You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.

I know none of this seems very believable. It probably doesn't even make sense. But for once in your life, please, I am asking you to trust me. Trust yourself.

If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it." narrator Charles Yu, not author Charles Yu p19

The storm is an artist

But I couldn't stop there. The call of adventure was much stronger and more inviting.

Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.