I always had this secret suspicion that I was special.
The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing.
I do my precalc homework, and then when I’m done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That’s the kind of weekend it is – the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.
But monotony doesn’t make for painlessness.
I want to see you again tonight. But I’m willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.
Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross...
This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don’t touch me – oh, god!
You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.
But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.
Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering.
All salvation is temporary.
Because it’s kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.
There’s no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water.
I’m not interested in dating a girl I’m not gonna marry.
Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you?
Eternity bids thee to forget.
I love you present tense.
You may be smart, but I’ve been smart longer.
You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.
That’s why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they’ll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.