The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back... - Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

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

"I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love."

"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."

"Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true."

"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."