I've misplaced it all, but I can't seem to lose my brother. It's a priceless gift--to have his love at a time when I've done nothing to earn it.

Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.

What matters most, is not how my end happens, or if it happens now. What I care about in this instant, is that she knows how much I love her—that I lived long enough to have her love me back.

I'd die of a broken heart before breaking yours.

Home is the place that expects the most of you, but still welcomes you at your worst. And she has always been my home, my Merminia.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

At some point, you have to set down the past. At some point, you have to accept that everyone was doing their best. At some point, you have to gather yourself up, and go onward into your life.

Although the world is full of suffering it is full also of the overcoming of it.

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

The space genre is timeless.

Desiring things widely different for their various tastes.

...the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue - it's been happening every day for a long time.

There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.

I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser.