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

In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. But he wasn't crying. Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if she'd taken the part of him that cried.

The preciousness of the moment, which should make it easier to talk, makes it harder.

...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.

He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.

Language buries, but does not resurrect.