Life works best when we think of people as people.

I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.

The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

But why Alaska?' I asked her. 'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut word, Alyeska. It means 'that which the sea breaks against,' and I love that. But at the time, I just saw Alaska up there. And it was big, just like I wanted to be.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun," Margo said.

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.