Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Maybe we've grown out of each other.

Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.

And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a steady pulse of pleasure and satisfaction and occasional irritation, and this seemed to be a happy exchange; if there had been moments in her life when she had been more elated, there had never been a time when things had been more constant.

I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.