And since she drove to work every morning, I could only use the car on weekends. Well, weekends and the middle of the goddamned night.

And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

Nerdfighter pwns woot. Everyone knows that.

Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.

Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.

Nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource.