Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.

Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.

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

Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.

You only ask people about themselves so you can tell them about yourself.