Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him.

This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it.

Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable.