Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.

Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

The most dangerous enemy in the world is the one you do not recognize.

That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

Don't ever let anybody know you're injured.

Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.

When I was a kid everyone used to call me pork 'n.

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

Israel today is bad for the Jews.