Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.

Don’t make stuff because you want to make money - it will never make you enough money. And don’t make stuff because you want to get famous - because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people - and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts.

Language buries, but does not resurrect.

She fell apart because that's what happens.

Suffering is universal.

Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying, and (b) not have died.

This one's for Alaska Young!