I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.

That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.

This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued?

When it works, anticipation is far more fulfilling than surprise, because we are reminded that a sunrise is precisely as magnificent as it is inevitable.

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

Why would you try to kill this guy, Kevin? He's a genius. Nuts to your truce.