His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep.

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.

Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.

Some of our friends put our enemies out of work.

I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

People who are empathic definitely will have some difficulties distinguishing their own feelings from other people's feelings and they tend to take on other people's energies quite easily.

Don't wait until you feel positive to move forward. Act your way into feeling good.

Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.

I doubt that Congress would pass on the opportunity to make sure that our children were safe from terrorists.

Everything you do is autobiographical. Yeah, I grew up in a town called Redding and I had older brothers and sisters so it's all my memories of growing up.

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

To form a strong opinion, you have to be knowledgeable about the subject. You have to have access to all the relevant information. You gotta be literally an expert.