Sexuality is important, but it's certainly not the most interesting or important thing happening to you right now. We live in a world that tells us that there are only two important things. One is the acquisition of goods and the other is either the acquisition or avoidance of sex, but it turns out that the question of who's a virgin and who's a virgout is not the most interesting question.

I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice.

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.

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.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.