You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

Every failure is also a victory.

Worship your body$$$ beauty$$$ and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall$$$ during the first eight pages.

This is so American$$$ man: either make something your god and cosmos and then worship it$$$ or else kill it.

Truly decent$$$ innocent people can be taxing to be around.

God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style Im not crazy about.

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesnt augur well for my longevity.

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

This is the true wine of astonishment: "We are not over when we think we are."