When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

And since she drove to work every morning, I could only use the car on weekends. Well, weekends and the middle of the goddamned night.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.

Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentally is one of those words that sounds like it wouldn't be a word but is.