Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. . . To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe.
I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.
You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It’s the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I’m alienated from society.
It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.
I think if there hadn't been the one passage of the book that mostly abandons the humor, and focuses very intently on one person's struggle with cancer, it wouldn't have been a critical success. So that was a very deliberate decision, to say "Well, if you think it's all fun and games, it's not. " So that was my approach: We're going to have as much fun as I can possibly provide, but the serious things that might normally pass by you are not going to be lost.
To conform is to lose your soul
All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.
The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.
Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.
No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
Stephon Marbury is the bomb. He is going to be so good.