I dislike the phrase ‘Internet friends,’ because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.

We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.

Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.

I could try to pretend that I didn't care anymore, but it could never be true again. You can't just make yourself matter, and then die, Alaska, because now, I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice.

Truth resists simplicity.