...It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.

I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.

Miles, as in 'to go before I sleep'?

there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is

We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

Ben Starling, you better not have bought your token black friend a racist shirt

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."