"And then she’d take off again, with a sort of confused-confounded glance down at me, as though every time she came ho…"

"They are time, and time eats everything but listens to no one."

"Everyone’s always saying love is the element that binds the universe together, but that’s a load of bollocks; it’s co…"

"“Stories are pretty dumb animals. And so aggressive!” I clapped my hands. “Say three ways they’re dumb!” “Let’s see.”…"

"Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than …"

"But in the end, all wars are more or less the same. If you dig down through the layers of caramel corn and peanuts an…"

"Everyone you know is a monster, sweetie. We’ve watched a lot of your media, you know. It’s an excellent way to evalua…"

"What was magical at two in the morning was tawdry and cheap and dangerous to your health at two in the afternoon."

"Failure was here before you and she’ll be here after you and she won’t even notice you go."

"Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything pulses to a beat laid down by the Big Bang. Everything feels the dr…"