Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

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

If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.

you're doomed at being you.

Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.

Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do?

The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.