All Charles Yu Quotes
- This, then, is my choice: I can allow the events of my life to happen to me. Or I can take those very same actions… Action
- How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the… Afraid
- How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image, in front of… Convince
- Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of… Accommodate
- Sometimes at night I worry about TAMMY. I worry that she might get tired of it all. Tired of running at sixty-six terahertz, tired of… All
- You haven’t experienced awkwardness until you’ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry. Awkwardness
- You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. Bits
- Whatever the reason, first place was always Solo, always, always, always, and second place was usually Chewbacca, because if you weren't the one saving the… Always Always
- This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the… Able
- Everyone has a time machine. Everyone *is* a time machine. It's just that most people's time machines are broken. The strangest and hardest kind of… All
- You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself. Even Forget
- If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am. Dog
- Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion,… All
- nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in humans as a… Been
- All anyone is to anyone is a series of days. All