Everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.

What's the meaning of life? Other people.

Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.

Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

Is it still cool to go to the mall?' she asked. 'I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what's cool,' I answered.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.