For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning!It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.

Judge no one but love every one.

I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.

I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

There's nothing wrong with keeping your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say.

Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!

Marines are very good at fighting... And if Gen. Franks wants fighters on the ground and he puts Marines in, he'll have what he wants.

I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up for me, or that I won't be able to finish it.