Please stop sniffing the robot boy, Noemi tells herself, jerking out of the trance.

The opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.

Your soul is bigger than your programming.

We are this world. Its next generation. If you’re not trying to save us, then what exactly are you trying to save?

Ester would tell her to dance faster, leap higher, to laugh out loud with all the breath in lungs. That’s what the dead would tell the living, if they could—to grab hold of joy whenever it comes.

Where there’s no free will, there’s no sin.

…victory that comes from the sacrifice on an innocent isn’t a victory. It’s the end of us.

Only through sacrifice can Genesis survive.

…one world’s poison might be another’s salvation

Silently he traces out a new constellation, one only he knows. One with Noemi at the very heart.

This is the last time Abel lets the humans make the plans.

We are all poets, really.

Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.

I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.

They are not happy out there. Take a walk today and look at how many people smile. Look at how troubled they are, unhappy, stressed out. Go through the ghetto or go through Beverly Hills.

In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.

The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'

I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.

I've always been very outspoken and a supporter of the underdog, because I'm one as well. I