“Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.”
“You're making me nervous by being so weird. But your weirdness is what I like about you.”
“He is a writer. He makes the rest of them nervous.”
“You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.”
“[L]ibrarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people with mental health disorders, can make people nervous.”
“It makes me nervous when you keep answering all my questions with 'I don't know.' ""Me, too," I said.”