“The problem is you don't understand what the problem is.”

“Everything you think makes you cool makes you even more of a loser.”

“It will kill you to love like you will never die.”

“I'm probably laughing at myself more than anyone is, because I'm around me all the time.”

“That one brown house still had that hole in its garage door splintering like a chewed cookie smile, the hole the exact size and height of the car parked on the driveway in front of it.”

“I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.”

“The evolutionary algorithm--of variation and selection, repeated--searches for solutions in a world where the problems keep changing, trying all sorts of variants and doing more of what works.”