We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.

Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds.

The Colonel led all the cheers. Cornbread!" he screamed. CHICKEN!" the crowd responded. Rice!" PEAS!" And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs." Hip Hip Hip Hooray!" the Colonel cried. YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!

there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is

You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.

In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable.