...people with nothing to declare carry the most. - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"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."

"The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did."

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

"Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?"