and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious

Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?

I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny.

Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.

Sam and Caine were left standing side by side, bruised and battered, to stare over Penny's sickening corpse, at the face of their mother.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

Make your goal to do a tremendous amount to improve your audience's lives.

I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.