If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!

…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.

I wondered if there would ever be a day when I didn't think about Alaska, wondered whether I should hope for a time when she would be a distant memory - recalled only on the anniversary of her death, or maybe a couple of weeks after, remembering only after having forgotten.

Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.

There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the world as we find it. It's a tool of protection, but it can also be a tool of incision to get to some truth. But along the way maybe we've lost some of what I think of as the power of straightforward emotion and earnestness and seriousness.

C'mon Pudge. I'm teasing. You have to be tough. I didn't know how bad it was-- and I'm sorry, and they'll regret it-- but you have to be tough.

I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.