Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity

Yeah, so if that guy can make it in drunk, surely we can make it in sober. I mean, we’re ninjas.' 'Well, maybe you’re a ninja,' I said. 'You’re just a really loud, awkward ninja,' Margo said, 'but we are both ninjas.

The thought of you being removed from the rotation is not funny to me.

It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.