I cannot let the fear of the past color the future.

You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.

Oh, don't mind me, " came an extremely sarcastic voice near the wall. “You two go ahead and make out–I'll just sit here and bleed quietly.

Now we're going to save a bunch of dirty meatsacks from a bunch of dirty cannibals? Why don't we rescue some orphaned kittens and put food out for stray puppies while we're at it?

Sorry, I didn't see the big X with the words Top Secret Government Laboratory on the map, did you?

The lesser of two evils was still evil.

It would be hilariously tragic if I avoided the rabids, avoided the sun, only to be fried to a crisp on a damn electric fence because I was too impatient.

What lies beneath this envelope of flesh and blood, hmm? Is it something special? Perhaps, when I peel it open, I will be able to see. Perhaps your screams will tell me everything I need to know.

The point of dreams was never to be the affordable option, it was the one everyone else saw as a mistake and every creative person saw as an opportunity.

One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.

Your journey might seem very long and hard, but bear in mind that sooner or later your struggles would become the past, and your rewards would become the present.

People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.

He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Now if I lived in my land, which I do, if I lived in Iceland, if I lived in Greensland I'd still have Chinese children, but out of my ears my little grey baby hears.

Everybody is worth everything.

The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.