I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."

"Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!"

"Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future."

"I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time."

"I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped."