Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?

Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.

It didn’t take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory.

Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then be punctuated by some horrible childhood memory.

Live the future when it comes, not now, only when it comes! Now, only live the now!

And if I talk to him, I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betrayal of myself.

it wasn’t until the train went past that she saw the small body lying in the long grass by the side of the wood.

If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel. In fact, Discovery is Vladimir Putin's favorite channel.

How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.

Only a f-kin imbecile would think they un-correctable, cause you're susceptible to becoming more than a spectacle.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

The facts of microevolution [change within the species] do not suffice for an understanding of macroevolution [theorized change from one species to another].

The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.