Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.

She was loved deeply, but not widely

I have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

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.

When people call people nerds, mostly what they're saying is, 'you like stuff.' Which is not a good insult at all, like, 'you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human conscience.

Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist." "If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree." "I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that.