You say you're not special because the world doesn't know about you, but that's an insult to me. I know about you.

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.

But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.

You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

Poetry is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

I tore open the closet door and began feverishly sorting through the shirts piled on the floor in the vain hope that inside that pile there might be some wondrously perfect shirt down there, a nice and tough but I'm also a surprisingly good listener with a true and abiding passion for cheers and those who lead them.