Coal miners don't get coal miners' block.

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.

Writing does not resurrect. It buries.

I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.

You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.

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.