In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or propriety.

Can you believe it? Fifty miles from McDonald's. I didn't think there was anywhere in the world that was fifty miles from McDonald's.

Whenever it rains you will think of her.

Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.

Everybody who has ever read Sandman knows exactly what the Sandman looks like, which is more than anybody who has ever read The Catcher in the Rye can say about Holden Caufield.

When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.