“Immortality seems like a good idea, until you realise you're going to spend it alone”

“Keep going until it seems like a bad idea, then go a little further.”

“A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.”

“I seem to feel ashamed of going out and getting merry - I find it oddly humiliating - but I'm quite happy to sit here like some dipsomaniac and become maudlin. For me, that is cool behaviour. Once you realise you're going to be on your own for the next few decades, it seems as pleasurable a way as any to pass the years.”

“Seemed like a good idea on paper.”

“We're quiet for a moment. And then: 'Why did you call me Matt?''It seemed like a good idea at the time. Now that I know you, I realise I should have called that character Dick.'He laughs, and then the couch shakes. 'Honestly, Gabe, I forgot you could be this much fun.”