If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.

It was the kind of love you can only feel toward someone you don't actually know.

Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we're simultaneously both cowardly and arrogant. We don't know the answers, so we assume they must not exist.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.

Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis.

It's possible for me to imagine a generation of people maybe two generations removed from you who might decide that we have an adversarial relationship with technology.