“The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.”

You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

Love is keeping the promise anyway.

When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Some people have lives; some people have music.

Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don’t wanna make eye contact while telling it

Without pain, how could we know joy?

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

I just did some calculations and I’ve been able to determine that you’re full of shit.

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence.

Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.

Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.

Life works best when we think of people as people.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.