...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.

Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself open and take whatever creature that's sitting inside and shake it clean like a rug and then rinse it in a cold, clear lake like up in Oregon, and then I want to put it under the sun to let it heal and dry and grow and sit and come to consciousness again with a clear and quiet mind.

I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Los Angelenos dress like they've been focus-grouped.

I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.

A ring is a halo on your finger.