It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.

Waffles are just awesome bread.

But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

Anyway, that was the last good day I had with Gus until the Last Good Day.

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

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.