The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.

In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.

Some people have lives; some people have music.

You were clearly not doing your part in the clover search, perv.

Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would agree that curiosity is not the most important human trait; the urge to collaborate is. Heck . . . only we have the ability to cooperate to make like online communities and space telescopes and imaginariums and movies. So the great thrill of this whole experience [my novel being made into a movie] for me was . .. .seeing humanity do what it's best at, which ultimately is not competing but cooperating.