“She's pretty." (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)”

“the party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle, but i think they do it to make us feel important”

“My one friend is a screwup—a genius blessed with the most beautiful girl in the world, and he doesn’t even know it.”

“Sometimes we call those girls sluts. Do you think she had a boyfriend when she was eight?”

“Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.”

“Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it? It's an option taken by a lot of successful people: Ernest Hemingway, Socrates, Jesus. Even before high school, I thought that it would be a cool thing to do if I ever got really famous. If I kept making my maps, for instance, and some art collector came across them and decided to make them worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, if I killed myself at the height of that, they'd be worth millions of dollars, and I wouldn't be responsible for them anymore. I'd have left behind something that spoke for itself.”

“If there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable.I think it's a little harsh how the END button is red.”