He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

You have my whole heart. You always did.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

Please tell me this is easier to take off than it was to put on.”Calla raised a brow. “You do not think Master Kell knows how?

Count your blessings with gratitude no matter how small or big they are, and stop letting your lacks blindfold you from noticing how blessed that you are.

When I get married, it'll be no secret.

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.

Passion and persistence are what matter. Dreams are achievable and you can make your fantasy come true, but there are no shortcuts. Nothing happens without hard work.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones.

I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.

The quest for glory can never be satisfied, it must be extinguished.