You say into my cracks and I saw into yours.

You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?

Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.

I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.

She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different.