There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

We're all trapped. It's always 1734. All of us, we're stuck in the same time capsule, the same as those television shows where the same people are marooned on the same desert island for thirty seasons and never age or escape. They just wear more makeup. In a creepy way, those shows are maybe too authentic.

"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."

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.

Kids grow up connected to nothing these days, plugged in and living lives boosted to them from other people.

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.