When someone walks in and you say "a six-foot-tall man," you miss the opportunity to describe what a six-foot-tall man would look like to your narrator, because how the narrator describes a six-foot-tall man says more about the narrator than about the man.

A moment is all you can expect from perfection.

The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.

Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.

I might be a touch of a sadist and a little bit jejune... but at least I'm not a victim, not any longer. I hope. I hope, therefore I am.

He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.