You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with.

Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.