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I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.

I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.

Real computers scared me; if you can find Them, then They can find you.

What he needed was to find fifty more people like him, who had stopped being themselves without realizing it.

Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.