You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?

Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him.

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

Why am I not good at anything?""You're a good dad.""It ain't rocket science."No, Vic thought. It was harder.

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better...

To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.

How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.

Life today has become a series of spectacles to be viewed, not actions to be lived.

The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is feasible.

I'm also, than anything else, a teacher and a student. And without the four hours, I'm pretty monsterish. For real.

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.

Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have done science and technology in some form.

The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.

But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing more harm than good.