When we read the right book generously, it can change the way think about the world around us.

You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.

I would argue that stupidity is born out of bad reading, bad teaching and bad thinking!

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

One of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moments that he'd try to capture in the stories he told. Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.

I do, Augustus. I do.