If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.

You are permanent, but this life is not.

I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.