You can only go to places that you will let yourself go.

- Charles Yu

We break ourselves up into parts. To lie to ourselves, to hide things from ourselves. You are not you. You are not what you think you are. You are bi…

- Charles Yu

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

- Charles Yu

This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about ot…

- Charles Yu

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

- Charles Yu

Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

- Charles Yu

For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of time I could find. Same exact t…

- Charles Yu

I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait unti…

- Charles Yu

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because the…

- Charles Yu