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

I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.

‎These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours and kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full of water, still floating.

Margo says, "I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.

I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.

But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

A desert blessing, an ocean curse.