The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

I am a champion standing over the shadow of my former self.

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

What good's a captive without her captor?

That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently.

We should know who they are, " I said, "before we kill them. That's just being polite.

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

Chiropractic makes me feel a few inches taller each time I come out.

In the realm of divine consciousness, you can see beyond beliefs, beyond knowing, and beyond not knowing.

I had a survey done on my house. 8 out of 10 people said they really rather liked it

I don't think, if anything, I don't think it's a feeling of hopelessness that people feel. I think if they feel - if they're feeling what we're feeling, it's that this is how we fight back.

I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life.

I went to my first college to play soccer.

To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.