I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.

People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.

Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency.

He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him.

But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them.