Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base.

This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.

The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness.

Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.

Every paper girl needs at least one string.

Love is always a miracle, everywhere,every time. But for us, it's a little different. I don't want to say it's more miraculous,...It is though.

Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people.