Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to.

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

There’s less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank, ” Bailey said. “They’ll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark’s.

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

Director of Ensuring the Future

Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later.

I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.

This democracy thing, or Demoxie, whatever it is, good god. Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.

Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything.

Troubles teaches what must be taught.

If GOD had a milk carton, would your face be on it?

I’m not familiar with this word you were repeating before…‘cojones’, was it?”I blushed as Dominick patted me on the back. “Way to introduce him to the vernacular, Palta.

The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe.

I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.

I loved the fact that I could get on stage and be in control.

Don't sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it all away and hung himself because he was so unhappy with himself.

To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.

Don't follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!

Here's what I suggest," he said. "You pretend that rats can think, and I'll promise to pretend that humans can think, too.