Everyone’s running from something.

You ever try holding, say, even a single chapter of a novel in your head? Consciously? All at once?

The neurological condition of echopraxia is to autonomy as blindsight is to consciousness.

It’s kind of like a Zen thing. Like playing the piano, or being a centipede in Heaven.

Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.

Transcendence is transformation.

Word of advice, ” the Colonel said from the other side. “Don’t tease the zombies.

Lay down an unforgiving spirit, because there'll be no peace until you do.

You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.

Being poor is a state of mind, not a condition.

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.

The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

When we love and make loving commitments, we create families and communities within which people can grow and take risks, knowing that hands will be there to catch them should they fall.

If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.