Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others’ butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those they’ve known for a lifetime.

Secrets have an unfortunate way of spreading far beyond those they were intended for.

I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking about the bacon—the potential of bacon—gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't. Seriously.

How quickly we come around, ' Sazed whispered. 'It wasn't long ago that men were forced to watch the Lord Ruler cut the heads from innocent people. Now we do it to ourselves.

I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.

Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war.

Hip-hop is the last true folk art.

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.

Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.