That's what you do when the curtain is falling--you give the line that the audience wants to hear.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

The way I see it, if everybody ran from bad things instead of trying to stop them, bad things would be all there is.

Never step on caterpillars, as one day, they'll become butterflies and you'll never know when you'll need a ride on its wings of fortune.

Why us?" he said. "Why is it happening to us?""Everything has to happen to someone, " said Ginger.

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.

Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.

[Donald] Trump is a [Hillary] Clinton Christmas gift.

Iraq will succeed because the Iraqis will see to it that they succeed. And our job is to help them succeed. That's our job.

We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down.

I didn't expect to see Kim, but I'm gonna be professional when I really just want to sock her in the face