One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.

If you weren't around, I'd probably be someplace way the hell off. In the woods or some goddamn place. You're the only reason I'm around, practically.

She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.

God, how I still love private readers. It’s what we all used to be.

God, I wish you could have been there.