They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

Some things, it was better not to think about. It just made you mad and angry.

Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.

You couldn’t live close to war and not have it grab you eventually.

Her face was smeared with mud and blood and ash. Just another bit of debris in the wreckage of war.

Maggot twitch, some people called it. If you’d seen much of the war, you had it. Some more. Some less. But everybody had it.

A gamble. Everything was a damn gamble. Betting against luck and the Fates, again and again, and again. She kept walking, waiting for the bullet.

Tool wondered if the girl was going mad. It happened to people. Sometimes they saw too much and their minds went away. They lost the will to survive. They curled up and surrendered to madness.

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation.

The harder they fall, the harder they become.

I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

I'd give my life to be the national team coach.

Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.