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

I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?

I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.

At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.

He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it.