Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.

No," I said. And maybe it was only because Alaska couldn't hit the brakes and I couldn't hit the accelerator.

Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?

"Nothing," I said. "I’m just…" I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. "I’m just very, very fond of you."

It's not fair," I said. "It's just so goddamned unfair." "The world," he said, "is not a wishgranting factory.

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.