Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

I know none of this seems very believable. It probably doesn't even make sense. But for once in your life, please, I am asking you to trust me. Trust yourself.

If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it." narrator Charles Yu, not author Charles Yu p19

At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.

Maybe some people don't feel scared when they think about comets and supernovas. Maybe they think it is wonderful.

I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed” (17)

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

All dreams appear impossible until somebody makes them happen.

I assure you that some of the most awesome things God has ever done for me have come out of the most awful things I’d done to myself.

If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult . . . I apologize.

Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.

Christmas is never over,unless you want it to be... Christmas is a state of mind.

If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it.