Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt.

I understand I have no place here. I understand I am lost in the god's eye. I understand I must find my purpose or I will go mad in this green, godless place.

I think—” Anakin kicked his heel against the polished marble floor. “I think I hate it when I can’t stop my men from getting hurt. From dying. I think—

That’s because it is cruel, Obi-Wan, ” Anakin snapped. “Cruel and unfeeling and unworthy of the Jedi Order.” He was so like Qui-Gon. This was like arguing with a ghost.

The Innocent Mage is come, and we stand at the beginning of the end of everything

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.

Sorrow is dangerous.

Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei

A land of levity is a land of guilt.

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

I don't have anybody telling me what to say. I have people who would suggest, maybe, that I shouldn't do this, that or the other, but that's strictly up to me.

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.

If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."