We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.

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.

I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

It's bad for your brain not to unplug.

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.