There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.

I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh.

Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.

The way I’d put it, ” said Makin, “is that Rike can’t make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.

Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.

we get brave.we move.we believe.we keep going.

Curiosity is a daring faith.

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

When you look at Trump, you can really see someone who's destructive to any form of life enhancement in virtually every area.

The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear.

To play Cleopatra on Broadway would just be incredible.

Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself.

People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.