Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

Black as night, sweet as sin.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

Magic is always been there, just believe, then you'll see it

Defy reason.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit.

The fans were so psyched that someone was doing a movie about a Boston fan that they were giving their all.

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Anchoring four hours a day, solo, you have to know your stuff. But I do. I'm a real geek.

Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination.