Just be careful of forming close relationships, Craig. Focus on yourself.” “Okay.” “Only then does healing take place.” “All right.
Whether it’s sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That’s what’s important.
There’s great stuff in there. There’s a disease called Ondine’s Curse, in which your body loses the ability to breathe involuntarily. Can you imagine? You have to think “breathe, breathe” all the time, or you stop breathing. Most people who get it die.
People don’t make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change.
I’m asking for simplicity, for purity and ease of choice and no pressure. I’m asking for something that no politics is going to provide, something that probably you only get in preschool.
Giving my brain up. That’s what’s important.
Nothing us normal.
Good. Because right now I don’t have you pegged as a yuppie. You’re something else. I’m not sure what you are, but I’m going to find out.” “Cool.
It’s funny how people ask that as soon as they get you on the phone. I think it’s a byproduct of cell phones: people – girls and moms especially – want to nail you down in physical space. The fact is that you could be anywhere on a cell phone and it shouldn’t be important where you are. But it becomes the first thing people ask.
I was still getting 93’s, but what the hell, someone had to get them.
And you shouldn’t assume that everything is always about you.
When I was a kid I read these books, the Redwall books, fantasy books about a bunch of warrior mice, and the mice had this war cry that I always thought was cool: “Eulalia.” And like an idiot, that’s what I yelled off the Brooklyn Bridge: Eulaliaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
They’re sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they’re important – everybody knows that; the TV tells you so – but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another. All you have to do is talk to people, and this was back when I could talk to anybody.
This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying. The party line is that some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle, but I think they do it to make us feel important. One thing’s for sure: no one else in life says to me, “Wait, Craig, what were you going to say?
People are screwed up in this world. I’d rather be with someone screwed up and open about it.
I learn something I didn’t know about the human body : if your mom cries, you cry.
I don’t really need to explain this to Aaron. He’s been demoted.
Let’s concentrate on our discussion of things that make us happy, Humble,” says the psychologist.
Kid like you, got money, got a family, you’ll be out in a few days.
There are only things that could have turned out differently. You don’t have any shoulds or woulds in your life, see? You only have things that could have gone a different way.