I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.

I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?

People shouldn't be allowed to get married until it's too late to have kids.

As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dad’s last voice message into Morse code, and I used sky-blue beads for silence, maroon beads for breaks between letters, violet beads for breaks between words, and long and short pieces of string between the beads for long and short beeps, which are actually called blips, I think, or something. Dad would have known.