Getting a life’ is something only a complete idiot could believe. Like you can just drive to a store and get a life. See it in its shiny box and look inside the plastic window and catch a glimpse of yourself in a new life and say, ‘Wow, I look much happier — I think this is the life I need to get!’, take it to the counter, ring it up, put it on your credit card. If getting a life was that easy, we’d be one blissed-out race.

Do you know why I left America, Lidewij? So that I would never again have to encounter Americans." "But you are an American." "Incurably so, it seems.

I love you present tense.

I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

How can you seperate those things though? The people are the place is the people.

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.