One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.