The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

I kind of didn't believe the doctors when they came over and they said you're not going to be able to walk again. I'm sorry to tell you this. I thought who is this guy? I just was so impatient with the whole thing. I knew I was going to walk again. I knew that I was going to do that.

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.

When love is gone, there's always justice.