I said, 'I need to know how he died.' He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?' So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

If it weren't my life, I wouldn't have believed it.