It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

Mind is like a net, drawn by the needles of past and future. Mindfulness is the way for not getting stuck into that net.

A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.

My child was one of Nature's Tories pitted against a mother who was one of nurture's Lefties: it was no contest.

Wendy: Why are you staring at me? Finn: Because you're standing in front of me.

I don't think the Democrats need a silver bullet.

If I ever saw him again,he was going to get a proper introduction to Tasey.

Painting contains a divine force which not only makes absent men present, as friendship is said to do, but moreover makes the dead seem almost alive.

Unrequited love's a bore.

A good education prepares you well for anything.

Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have their own agendas.