I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.

...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.

…how monstrous the people you loved could be.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

But when you flee someone, no matter how far you roam, that person will follow you as doggedly as the stars.

What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.

Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. Very few people realize, there's no point chasing after answers to life's important questions. They all have fickle, highly whimsical minds of their own. Nevertheless. If you're patient, if you don't rush them, when they're ready, they'll smash into you. And don't be surprised if afterward you're speechless and there are cartoon Tweety Birds chirping around your head. (Gareth van Meer)