All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

The joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness.

Nerd girls are the world’s most underutilized romantic resource. And guys, do not tell me that nerd girls are not hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness.

Some people have lives; some people have music.

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you?

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.