Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.

You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

You can't not like "The Great Gatsby." It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

..there she is, and I am watching her through plexiglass, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was two–this girl who was an idea that I loved. And it is only now, when she closes her notebook and places it inside a backpack next to her and then stands up and walks toward us, that I realize that the idea is not only wrong by dangerous. What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person.