People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may seem….

New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the sta….

I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole no….

Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes it. I sup….

It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee." "No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it..

And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this….

I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual livin….

Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words..

What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the ….

I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with the world….

I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacit….

They're both about the correct or proper way to do something. There is a correct and proper way to use words and there is a correct and proper way to….

I’m not a sociopath or a freak (although I don’t suppose people who are sociopaths or freaks self-identify as such); I just don’t enjoy being with pe….

Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier..

Are you okay?' she asked me. Of course,' I said. 'Why wouldn't I be okay?' There are lots of reasons why you might not be okay.' There are lots of re….

I suppose most people would think that it was wonderful, that the world is so varied, that there is something for everyone, and I don't know why I fe….

I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometime….

Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of thinking and the act of articulating….

I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear….

It was strange to see someone you have only known alone begin interacting with other people, for that somebody known to you disappears and is replace….

The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life. H….