"And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people."

"Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?"

"When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made."

"I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools."

"Thank you," he says. "Thank who?" "I don't know. You?" "No, not me. Jesus." "Thank you, Jesus?" "Yes, Toph, Jesus died for your Christmas fun."

"Be strong, be brave, be true. Endure."

"I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind."

"3. There are bears and there are small dogs. Be strong like bear! If they take out your teeth, sit on the dogs. Bears always forget they can just sit on the dogs. Sit on the dogs."

"Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore."

"Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane."

"How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting."

"It all meant something. Until it didn't."

"Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)"

"You sit at a desk twelve hours a day and you have nothing to show for it except some numbers that won't exist or be remembered in a week. You're leaving no evidence you lived. There's no proof."

"This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable."

"We are all feeding from each other, all the time, every day."

"My feeling is that if you're not self-obsessed you're probably boring."

"Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light."

"You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently."

"We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun."

"But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes."

"I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run."

"Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are."

"He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?"

"He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her."

"Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?"

"What is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?"

"But that in any city, in any cluster of people, there a few people who are awake at this hour, who are both awake and dancing, and it’s here that we need to be."

"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."