You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.

The only person I really wanted to talk about Augustus Waters was Augustus Waters.

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters' death was Augustus Waters.

Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime...

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.