It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked Southern California, where the light is so bright it bleaches the shadows.

She didn't know if she was crying because Illukar was going to die, or because Ieskar already had.

Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see and could not understand if you saw them.

What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.

Solipsism may be logically consistent with present Quantum Mechanics, Monism in the sense of Materialism is not.

Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.

But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

I imagined that being someday in pro ball I would have been Kevin Costner in Bull Durham. If I had never discovered acting, I literally would have been that guy.

Africa has no future.

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.