I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then die, Alaska, because now, I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice.

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’.

We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.

We think that we are invincible because we are.

But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.