Good friends are hard to find and impossible to forget.

Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling it

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

My interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable. My interest is in trying to reflect the reality of experience - how we feel when we talk to each other, how we feel when we're engaging with questions that interest us.

They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.

I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back.

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