When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.