They hugged, tight and warm and full of the promise he’d made upon waking up.

Oh, I'm good. Seriously, after all these years, you'd think I would stop amazing myself. But here I am, still doing it.

Her short blond hair shifted in the wind, and she appeared the very definition of peace and comfort. Like she belonged in the world that had existed before everything was scorched.

Absolutely nothing. That's what I'm going to do for two weeks. Not think. If I start to think, I'm going to think really hard about not thinking until I quit thinking.

The pain is necessary to find the power of being.

Falling in love is the most beautiful wonder.

But the Dark cannot claim what Light does not surrender.

In Eden, worship was not an event to attend, but a perpetual attitude.

There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

We need to be moral archaeologists to pull out how we understand the world

What loss is there in dignity, what worry is there of failure?