“...as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.”

“I’m older than myself. At least I will be, once my clone gets here.”

“My two favorited pasttimes are sex and golf, in that order, although, as I grow older I find myself assessing their order of preference.”

“I used to think that when I got older, the world would make so much more sense. But you know what? The older I get, the more confusing it is to me. The more complicated it is. Harder. You’d think we’d be getting better at it. But there’s just more and more chaos. The pieces—they’re everywhere. And nobody knows what to do about it. I find myself grasping, Nick. You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall into the right place, not only because it’s right, but because it will mean that such a thing is still possible? I want to believe in that.”

“I was so attracted to him I could have peed myself right there on the spot, but I hadn't done anything like that in a while. I was older now, and harnessed my feelings in moments like these by opening and closing my fists very rapidly.”

“I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.”