"That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them."

"And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles."

"Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky."

"Life's endless war against the self you cannot live without."

"Look. Listen. Use ears I'd be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines' noise. Jesus, Sweets, listen. Hear it? It's a love song. For whom? You are loved."

"Yes, I'm paranoid — but am I paranoid enough?"

"I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers..."

"It is named the "Web" for good reason."

"When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him."

"The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection."

"The true thoughts that go on inside us are just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of, at most, one tiny little part of us at any given instant."

"To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end."

"It's all very confusing. I think I'm very honest and candid, but I'm also proud of how honest and candid I am -- so where does that put me?"

"There are secrets within secrets, though--always."

"I wish you way more than luck."

"I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control."

"...Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome."

"I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting."

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

"Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence."

"Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks of men. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can't grab onto."

"Capital T-truth is about life before death."

"All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression."

"American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret."