“Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.”

“You're only good if you can do bad and decide not to.”

“Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. It's what you're willing to give up.”

“. . . no matter the evidence of your life, or who you believe you are, or what you're willing to take credit for or draw your vital strength and pride from--anything at all can follow anything at all.”

“How amazingly far normalcy extends; how you can keep it in sight as if you were on a raft sliding out to sea, the stitch of land growing smaller and smaller. Or in a balloon swept up on a column of prairie air, the ground widening and flattening, growing less and less distinct below you. You notice it, or you don't notice it. But you're already too far away and all is lost.”

“Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.”

“If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.”