Dead’s not good, but at least it’s simple.

A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.

No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.

The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster.

The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won’t stop a missile, though. It won’t alter the trajectory of a gauss round.

Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?

Fayez whistled low. “That is not dead which can eternal lie. Or, y’know, whatever.

I’m a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do.

You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.

You can order the sun to come up if you time it right. I’m not driving this bus. Making it do what I want would be like talking someone out of a seizure.

You know, ” Naomi said, “if you’re looking at hundreds of people burning to death as a problem solving itself, that may be more evidence that you’re on wrong side.

It could have been avoided. This couch misery spiral, this … loss … I could’ve avoided the bulk of it simply by doing more. I could’ve given a shit...

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

Take your big stick, and your boyfriend, and go find a bus to catch.

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.

Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

I've always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there's only a slightest chance.

You can only get over your fears if you attack them head on.

Think of the solution, not the problem

I've been asked if I ever get the DTs. I don't know. It's hard to tell where Hollywood ends and the DTs begin.