That’s the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

The more things you own, the more they own you.

"Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives."

The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger.

To a certain extent everybody has a certain sort of way of being a persona that they learn how to be when they're really little. They figure out that if they're really funny, or really pretty, or if they work really, really hard or are really smart, then that's what's going to get them by. That is what is going to make people like them.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.