Like all sick children," he answered dispassionately, "you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

“I realize that this is not, like, boyish. I realize that properly speaking guys…”

“But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that…”

“when I've thought about him dying-which admittedly isn't that much-I always tho…”

“The child who believes there is life after a novel ends.”