At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

Her hair is ridiculous," I said. "I know. That was the only thing I said about her that was true. When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes.

I have two kinds of Facebook friends: Those who know what 'DFTBA' means, and those who don't.

I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus.

When you leave a place, it's best to leave.

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?

We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.