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

By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

Dying is the last thing I would EVER do!

Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?" "No, sir," Gus said. "We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water.

Indiana,’ he said. ‘They steal the land from the Indians and leave the name, yes?