I walked over and picked up one of the jugs. "What's this? Some kind of Caster disinfectant?" Lena took it out of my hand and lined it up with the others. "Yeah, it's called bleach.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Mortals. I envy you. You think you can change things. Stop the universe. Undo what was done long before you came along. You are such beautiful creatures.

The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

There are no coincidences.

Because saving the people you love isn't stupid. It isn't even a choice

Who can judge the judge?

I'll love you until the day after forever.

It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A

Goths do not hate the world. They just learned to accept the world that refuses to understand them.

If you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.

Nothing but religious faith has been able to save men from despair.

Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

Certainly I've lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us--a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It's there with us as we live.

Respect is fatal, isn't it?

It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them.

Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought somebody the wrong size.

Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up.