...It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting.

I think all true stories are hopeful stories. I don't think there's any room for nihilism.

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you.

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.

If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.