Will leans forward, pulls off his mask, and kisses my forehead. "I'm glad I was the one to save you this time" he whispers.

Bursts of hope make despair harder to live with.

I’ve perfected the art of the fake smile. It’s not so difficult when you are completely numb.

She has to live, Eliott. I owe her a lifetime of apologies.”“Sometimes I think that’s all we owe our parents.

I won't cry. When the guilt is this heavy, you can't. It just settles and stays with you, and it's cold.

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.

I don't like the word "experiment" in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

I don't like crowds or attention.

I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.

For much of my life as a journalist, I've viewed myself as being embedded with civilians and with those people who live on the other side of the barrel of a gun.

I'm not afraid to have no make-up on and no hair. I just want to be stripped back.

It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.

I thought of Emmett Till, and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, I just couldn’t move.

You can only find opportunities if you are looking for them.