I have two kinds of Facebook friends: Those who know what 'DFTBA' means, and those who don't.

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else...But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills fascists.

It was nice - in the dark and the quiet... and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

I don't like reindeer. They seem like regular deer, only more dangerous.

Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.