If nothing else, it's pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving over the water, toward another world just out of sight.

Adulthood’s full of ghosts... High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.

The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?

Are you asking if I believe in ghosts?""I don't know. Maybe. Yes.""Of course not. Imagine how many there'd be.""Yes, " Kirsten said, "that's exactly it.

The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.

The more we know about the former world, the better we’ll understand what happened when it fell.

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

The federal government seeks to control and regulate the Internet, but the last thing this Congress should be doing is trying to stifle public debate online.

Workers in the United States are making less than they were almost 20 years ago, and yet they are working harder.But so am I working harder, that I can tell you.

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

I believe that a small action or a subtle gesture in life can change many, many things.

The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.

Why should I ? I don't need to run down my opponent through filthy language in order to win. The voters don't expect this from their representatives.

If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race.