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

Crying is you, plus tears

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.

...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.