When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.

If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...

But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing.

on the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future.

At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.

Nothing is build, just like that, everything around the world has some value and the purpose.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

A lot of people think I'm retiring, but I've been telling a fib. I've been forced to leave this job because I gave $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation.

Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

I think my favorite sound is the sound of someone not playing the bongos.

I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

If you ever were bullied, you always remember that feeling.

It's sad when two people who could never part without a kiss come to the point where they never part and so never kiss.