Those beliefs about the essential goodness or beauty of the world are fundamentally paper-thin bullshit. There's not an essential belief that isn't a contingent belief. It could all be destroyed in a second, at any second. And I have an issue with that.

She loved you in the morning because the day was new.

Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.

Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.

The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.