…one world’s poison might be another’s salvation

The opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.

Your soul is bigger than your programming.

We are this world. Its next generation. If you’re not trying to save us, then what exactly are you trying to save?

Ester would tell her to dance faster, leap higher, to laugh out loud with all the breath in lungs. That’s what the dead would tell the living, if they could—to grab hold of joy whenever it comes.

Where there’s no free will, there’s no sin.

…victory that comes from the sacrifice on an innocent isn’t a victory. It’s the end of us.

Only through sacrifice can Genesis survive.

Silently he traces out a new constellation, one only he knows. One with Noemi at the very heart.

This is the last time Abel lets the humans make the plans.

Abel. I can’t let you…sell your body.”“The transaction is closer to a rental.

Those who have no knowledge are often willing to occupy influential positions with the aim of acquiring every possible benefit.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

I think the problem with growing up and idealizing self-destructive artists is that you only see the beauty they created rather than all the pain that went along with it.

To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of Heaven.

Music is the crystallization of sound.

Some people have better ideas than others; some are smarter or more experienced or more creative. But everyone should be heard and respected.

So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution.

There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.

I would drive on streets that were one-way and think, "Why are they all honking at me?"

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.