You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just something a bunch of Hollywood move producers made up to sell more tickets in the Depression, when Dish Night kind of played out." Eddie laughed. Now I think that all of us are born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You...Eddie, you fill me up.

Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.