Can you do that?” Thomas asked. “Huh?” “Kill someone three times.” “I’d figure out a way.

Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.

I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.

I just...feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.

Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does.

You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!

I've been shucked and gone to heaven.

Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.

...You'd think the little part about them supposedly killing us would be the attention getter.

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone

Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?

You were not born to impress the world, but to impress the universe.

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me

Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.

Real worship is that of the heart.

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

There is one thing I know for sure. You can become successful, if you are willing to pay the price for success.

I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication.

Innovation is an outgrowth of initiative, and initiative - taking positive actions in a belief that your actions can make a difference - is a big part of confidence.