But it was only hot outside, and generally I only walked outside between one air-conditioned place to another.

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.

True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.

You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

‎"I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!