That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

All hurt is brain hurt.

Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.

Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...

Great deeds begin in the mind, extraordinary deeds begin in the heart, and remarkable deeds begin in the soul.

Consent to petting isn't consent to penetration.

At some point, you can't take a risk just to take a risk because that's a betrayal, in and of itself.

I have the greatest respect for the survivors of the Holocaust. We can't even imagine what these people went through.

Not by appointment do we meet Delight And Joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner in the streets of life, They, on a sudden, clasp us with a smile.

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

Don't confuse meaning with truth.

I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?

My life is a dot lost among thousands of other dots.