I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring. I doubted I could explain it to someone like Margo but drawing circles through life struck me as a kind of reasonable insanity.

It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.

Not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.

but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers

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

The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and fight. There will be no lord of the manor, which is not such a bad thing, because it seems to me that people have done a pretty poor job of guiding the biosphere for the last few thousand years.

I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.