Depression is a side effect of dying. (Almost everything is, really).

That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause

I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said.

I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided.