You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.

Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him.

While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.

All the characters are made out of words. With reading, I understand that the people aren't real but the fact that they are made out of language and are made out of words is extremely powerful to me. It becomes transformative for me. Different people have different ways of trying to make stories using language.

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back.

Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS).

Love is the most common miracle.