The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...

But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.

If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing.

on the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future.

At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.

When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

It never leaves, not with someone we love. Their presence burns too vivid in our memories. Happen that is as it should be, for otherwise we would too easy forget.

Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since.

The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.

If you do it properly, life is art, really.

He seems so.. English sometimes, kind of distant or reserved, but then he'll look at me, and his eyes see right through to my soul.

Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail.