We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.

... I'm the fortieth-ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what! What if someday she lets me kiss each one of her freckles again? She has like a million. But every one of them means something to me. Isn't this how people used to fall in love? I know we're living in Rubenstein's America, like you keep saying. But doesn't that just make us even more responsible for each other's fates? I mean, what if Eunice and I just said no to all this. To this bar. To this FACing. The two of us. What if we just went home and read books to each other?

My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me.

The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. Theres never a need to feel lost anymore.

We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.