Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.

The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

You think this is living? This is eating, nothing else.

Peak performance happens when we feel loved and supported from within.

If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.

This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

The body shuts down when it has too much to bear; goes its own way quietly inside, waiting for a better time, leaving you numb and half alive.

When I leaned a little too close to the doorway, my inner voice piped up, telling me not to be stupid. The guy with the bionic senses was better equipped for this.

I love my shoulders; they're strong. I like the way they move, and I like the way they look in clothes.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.

I'd like to be able to do complex math in my head. Any kind of adversity and I become very anxious, but if you're a robot, you have good equilibrium. I wish I was cooler under pressure, like a robot.