"Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage."

"Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole."

"You're breaking out of character, again."

"My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this dark mood to euphoria when I thought about leaving."

"Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts."

"This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love."

"ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWN."

"Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned"

"If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it."

"They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it."

"Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do."

"It was not knowing that was the seed of madness, loneliness, suspicion, fear."

"Your life has been lived a hundred times. A thousand times. It's not all that great, really. Don't take it so seriously. Don't handle it so delicately."

"Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes."

"If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school."

"I lost someone very close to me and afterward I believed I could have saved him had I been a better friend to him. But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them."

"My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own."

"First of all, I know it’s all people like you. And that’s what’s so scary. Individually you don’t know what you’re doing collectively."

"It only takes one person, one small act of stepping from the dark to the light."

"Here is a drawing of a stapler:"

"We were fools and now we were driving to our deaths in a rental car. Janet Jackson was tinkling from the speakers, asking what we had done for her as of late"

"This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos."

"Then he got more books. He saved all the books."

"Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing."

"No. There is no balance, and no retribution, and no rules. The rules and balances you blather about are hopeful creations of a man fearing death."

"(...) my problem with paper is that all communication dies with it. It holds no possibility of continuity."

"But that's one lifetime." Yeah." But while doing that one I'd want to be able to have done other stuff. Whole other lives- the one where I sail-" I know, on a boat you made yourself."

"You’re like part human, part rainbow."

"The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners."

"Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears for someone like me."

"She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles."

"When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this."

"There has not been a beautiful death in the history of mankind."

"She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think."

"The air is like being wanted, we say, and they nod approvingly. The air is like getting older, they say, and they touch our arms gently."

"Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic)"

"I am the Olympics."

"The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to believe."

"The peculiar problem of constant connectivity: any silence of more than a few hours provokes apocalyptic thoughts."

"Stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move."

"I often cannot believe the things I do."

"SECRETS ARE LIES SHARING IS CARING PRIVACY IS THEFT"

"There is no faith like the faith of a builder of homes in coastal Louisiana"

"The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard."

"People don't like to be kept away from what they want. Especially when it appears within their reach. It makes one doubly angry."

"But without William K, I would have forgotten that I had not been born on this journey. That I had lived before this."

"The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard. It shifts and our cities fall; it sighs and the coasts are overtaken."

"It was as if, for a moment, she thought Mae was one kind of person, but now, knowing she was another, she could part with her, she could give her back to the world."

"Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion."