I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?

...It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting.

Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

For me, the hero’s journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero’s journey is the voyage from strength to weakness.

I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.