Everybody has a theme. You talk to somebody awhile, and you realize they have one particular thing that rules them. The best you can do is a variation on the theme, but that's about it.

This post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it.

But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.

I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me.

Just the act of sleeping beside someone you liked to be with. Maybe that was love.

Twitter," said Manny, waving his hand. "You know what that is? Termites with microphones.

But this post-college world felt different from everything that had come before it; art was still central, but now everyone had to think about making a living too, and they did so with a kind of scorn for money except as it allowed them to live the way they wanted to live.