Occupation: Novelist Birth: December 30, 1961
It's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments..
Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now..
believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full ….
You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world..
My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of gi….
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want..
I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings in….
Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people for….
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells….
When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're g….
After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of Earth? What one moment for you defin….
Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades late….
Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it..
There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent..
As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth..
You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again..
Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity..
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony..
I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it..
We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping..
Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure..