Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

Reading leads to knowledge and wise ways of living.

Regardless of one’s age, acquiring new knowledge has always been useful.

And with that, I’m going to crawl into bed and try to erase all that has happened today.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.

When you're with girl you want to be with, everything's perfect.

I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.