In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.

But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

In the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

I wouldn't have cared if my girlfriend was a Jaguar-driving Cyclops with a beard - I'd have been grateful just to have someone to make out with.

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.

I opened the door. He looked down at my shirt and smiled. "Funny," he said. "Don't call my boobs funny," I answered.