The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that they exist. And his own adult future isn't real to him, either. Makes it that much easier to throw away.

A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.

Everything people do that doesn’t work has to be somebody else’s fault. Next time you know, geezers’ll be suing the government for getting old and kids’ll be taking their mommies to court because they came out ugly.

The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.