But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel ... it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.

"I think forever is an incorrect concept," I answered. He smirked. "You're an incorrect concept." "I know. That's why I'm being taken out of the rotation".

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

If you don’t know about Tumblr then you are not supposed to know about Tumblr. It’s like fight club.

But there's so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.