“I was just growing old enough to start realizing my own limitations, which is the first step to dying, I think.”

“Four years of sitting in your room reading, and now you're out here with the common folk," I say. "What did inspire you to suddenly make the trip?""I would have come sooner," she says, brushing her hair out of her face. "You just never invited me.”

“True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain.”

“The first part of my plan is to write until I die.The second part is to not die.”

“Be part of the answer, not part of the mess.”

“Superman or Green Lantern ain't got nothin' on me.”

“The way I see it people don't do what they want to do often enough. They just do some alternative which they'd kind of like to do, which isn't the same thing at all, and as a result that thing isn't enough and they end up depressed and annoyed with everyone else around them.”