[Sex] is really awkward. You know you have expectations and then it's this great moment of connection and it's a surprise. But that's what so exciting about it is that sense of surprise.

Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.

In our town there is a secret spot where you can still see the stars at night, believe it or not. It is the only spot like that left, unclouded by the dwindling skyscrapers rising nearby. It is a good place to go to walk and talk in whispers. Following the little hill that rises from the park to a small clearing which overlooks the statue of the armless general on his bronze steed, most of us later remember this spot as the first place we knew we might be in love.

Where do you go when you die? Ha ha. Go on, go on and tell her, Billy." Billy smiles. "You become a little voice in someone's ear telling them that things will be alright.

Maybe that's why people have friends at all. Not because they like them so much but because they don't make them feel so much worse.

We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.