Succotash my Balzac, dipshiitake.

We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?

I started inventing things, and then I couldn't stop, like beavers, which I know about. People think they cut down trees so they can build dams, but in reality it's because their teeth never stop growing, and if they didn't constantly file them down by cutting through all of those trees, their teeth would start to grow into their own faces, which would kill them. That's how my brain was.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.