By the way, I've decided to start referring to myself exclusively as 'Daddy.' Everytime Daddy would otherwise say 'I' or 'Me,' Daddy is now going to say 'Daddy.

The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and fight. There will be no lord of the manor, which is not such a bad thing, because it seems to me that people have done a pretty poor job of guiding the biosphere for the last few thousand years.

All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made out of language and are made out of words is extremely powerful to me. It becomes transformative for me. Different people have different ways of trying to make stories using language.

Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.

The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.

The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing.

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.