The answer is they didn't. They aren't here, Razor. They never were it's just us. It's always been just us.

People die. Love endures.

You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you.

How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.

I've always sucked at games of chance. Always hated them for that reason.

He didn’t like to see animals in captivity. When he looked into their eyes, something in their eyes looked back at him.

The nights did not come gently but seemed to slam down angrily upon the Earth.

Life is full of little ironies, but it's also pockmarked with some the size of that big rock in Australia.

Sullivan had her Crucifix Soldier and now I have mine. No. I am the soldier. Teacup is the cross.

In the early days, it was nearly omnipresent, a constant background noise, like the hum of traffic on a busy highway: the sound of a human being in pain.

You need a break every once in a while to enjoy the everyday and you need the everyday to enjoy the break you take every once in a while.

Consciousness is the only home of which we know.

I grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so aspirational. It's about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.

I want to be one of the best ever. It's important to me. Why can't I be? Who's faster than me? Not many. Who has the size and can move like me? Not many. Catch passes like me? Not many.

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

I came out when I was 15 and I was a very active teenager in that regard.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."

I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.