But there's so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

The universe is biased toward consciousness because the universe wants to be noticed. It's a way into existential hope that doesn't have too much cliché wrapped around it.

I'd rather wonder than get answers I couldn't live with.

My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them.