And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.

You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.

He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.

I have an Augustus Waters fetish.

Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave