[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation.

A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing.

[To Aquinas] the intellect [stands] at the summit of ... the human soul.

We’d never talked about his parents, like he was some underwater Peter Pan.

i want you so much I feel like I'm going to explode.""I hear that Marines are good with explosions, " Beka said.

Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.

Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.

Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.

Don't uncork what you can't contain

Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.