When I was little, my dad used to tell me, "Will, you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny.

Being in a relationship, that’s something you choose. Being friends, that’s just something you are. I’d pick you. Fuck it, I do pick you. I want you to come over to my house in twenty years with your dude and your adopted kids and I want our fucking kids to hang out and I want to, like, drink wine and talk about the Middle East or whatever the fuck we’re gonna do when we’re old. We’ve been friends too long to pick, but if we could pick, I’d pick you.

Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even when you don't want to.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends nose.

You get all these friends when just when you don't need friends anymore.