I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.

It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not.

This is what I love about novels - both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss to be with you where you are.

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.

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