That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort, creeps me out.

Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things—elves and fairies—and now we don't. Now we see them, right?

If I can alter my perception of the reality, I can change the reality itself.

If you get enough people believing one thing, it's like reality bends itself to allow that to exist.

They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans.

The stars glittered through the atmosphere, and he thought of the distances that light must take to hit his eye at exactly that moment. Without him here, those photons would have been wasted.

Please do not say magic like you are discussing a bowel movement... Humanity expects the lights, so they are provided.

You have to surrender yourself to the experience.

Within you, within all human beings, is a seed of greatness that makes their kind quake with fear.

We're not mad, " he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.

She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries.

This war is going to be full of women who fall in love with men they'll never see again. All we do is say goodbye over and over.

Have patience or be a patient. Have patience in preparatory moments or be a patient after preparatory moments

Go on the roller coaster they tell me. It’ll be fun they tell me. -Max Montgomery

The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates, especially in swing states and swing districts around the country.

Some studies make such a deep impression on you that they stay etched in your memory forever.

It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

I can become you for a second and you can become me and this lifts us up.

In life, we have either reasons or results

There are few things quite so boring as being religious, but there is nothing quite so exciting as being a Christian!