"Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else."

"I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it."

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."

"You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do."

"We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?"

"Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it."

"Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you."

"Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being."

"Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself."