All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part of sleep. Now sleeping is the last thing I want to do.

To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient. Always, every time of the month, forever: Use birth control.

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

There are worse things you can do to the people you love than kill them. The regular way is just to watch the world do it. Just read the newspaper.