It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.

We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.

In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.

I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.