Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.

No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.

And you will keep breaking my heart a thousand times. And I will keep joining the pieces back a thousand times.

She looked utterly betrayed, as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare.

Shattered edges of the diamonds rough sets to cut the unsuspecting.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity too!

If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?

I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.

Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things.

Machines will follow a path that mirrors the evolution of humans. Ultimately, however, self-aware, self-improving machines will evolve beyond humans' ability to control or even understand them.