Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That’s what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?

Crying is you, plus tears

I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.

Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. I wondered if that was sort of the point of architecture.

You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting.