That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape---the world or the end of it?

There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the world as we find it. It's a tool of protection, but it can also be a tool of incision to get to some truth. But along the way maybe we've lost some of what I think of as the power of straightforward emotion and earnestness and seriousness.

Being a person, I had come to realize, is a communal activity. Dogs know how to be dogs. But people do not know how to be people unless and until they learn from other people.

Margo says, "I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep.

it was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. i wanted to be the last one she loved.