Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever.

I think maybe I know why,' she finally said. 'Why?' 'Maybe all the strings inside him broke,' she said.

The sun was a toddler insistently refusing to go to bed: It was past eight thirty and still light.

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.

By the power of the superglue beer sword, I designate you my driver!