Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't quite setting? That's the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seemed to be in that light.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

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.

Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you.

I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.