Love is just a shout in the void.

The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.

And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.

He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars.

The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available.

I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?

When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.