it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating.

We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.

If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.

Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve and halve, infinitely-and then the one that spreads out into the endless, endless future, the endless, endless, distance.The set of infinities that is itself infinite.

If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.

There's no way for them to take away my sadness, but they can make sure I am not empty of all the other feelings.

In the next election, I'm voting for your mom to be the next God.