The exhausted mind is obsession's easiest prey.

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

Isn't bravery always sort of beautiful?

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented.

We're all affected by music. It has the power to inspire, uplift us, change our moods, and even alter consciousness.

A manpossessesnothing certainlysavea brief loanof his own body.

The Tao is like a well; used but never used up.

I'm comfortable with morally gray.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

Family was a fertile breeding ground for the kind of psychological bacteria that warped minds and devoured hope.

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.