“Do you know how hard it is to gather seventy thousand people? Especially people who are confused and scared that they might be eaten by hungry dinosaurs?”

“It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.”

“It's amazing how right you can sometimes be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.”

“People who think they know it all, are especially annoying to those of us who do!”

“Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty; it is a matter of knowing that there are people who want you to be hungry and thirsty”

“What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know...I felt that by walking away I was abandoning [them], that I spent my entire life, day after day, abandoning people.”