I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, "those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.

…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.

You can't dingleberry that! That's a flagrant misuse of the dingleberry!

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

I do love you and what else matters but that

Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.