On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

I don't want to die without any scars.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is insomnia.

They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. Bus monsters are people too.

He would insult the Universe. That is, he would insult everybody in it. Individually, personally, one by one, and (this was the thing he really decided to grit his teeth over) in alphabetical order.

The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic

Everyone has a gift.It's up to you to decide what you do with it.

Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.

As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

A man must earnestly want.