I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

Imagine others complexly.

She loved mysteries so much that she became one.

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

You just gotta tell her, man,’ I said. ‘You just gotta say, “Angela, I really like you, but there’s something you need to know: when we go to my house and hook up, we’ll be watched by the twenty-four hundred eyes of twelve hundred black Santas.

You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.