It's nice to have people who will feel guilty for you.

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.

In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.

I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy patch of SeaWorld together, me on my back and she on her side with her arm draped against me, her head on my shoulder, facing me. Not doing anything--just lying there together beneath the sky, the night here so well lit that it drowns out the stars. And maybe I could feel her breathe against my neck, and maybe we could just stay there until morning and then the people would walk past us as they came into the park, and they would see us and think that we were tourists, too, and we could just disappear into them.

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.