Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?" "And you say there's no afterlife.

Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.

Stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

We were kissing. I thought: This is good. I thought: I am not bad at this kissing. Not bad at all. I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe. Suddenly she laughed and pulled away from me. She wiggled a hand out of her sleeping bag and wiped her face. "You slobbered on my nose," she said, and laughed

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

She left me enough to rediscover the Great Perhaps.