This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

I think it's just a matter of time before everybody realizes that I'm kind of a romance novelist ... that these are all stories about people kind of falling back in love or struggling with relationships. Even Fight Club was just a big romantic ending.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.

You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.