When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how humans are ultimately defined. We are our relationships to one another. And a lot of what's interesting about us happens in the context of other people.

By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

He may be a malevolent sorcerer, but Tiny Cooper is his own goddamned man, and if he wants to be a gigantic skipper, then that's his right as a huge American.

In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.

But once that string gets cut, kid, you can't uncut it. Do you get what I'm saying?

Maybe all the strings inside him broke.

Tiny, the next time that you try to set me up with a girl with a secret boyfriend can you at least INFORM me that she has a secret boyfriend? Also, if you don't call me back within five minutes, I'm going to assume you found a way back to Evanston. Furthermore, you are an asshat. That is all.