One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.

I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever saw her always just a few steps ahead.

Don't fall in love or let anyone's life become more important than your own.

I am a memory house for those I have lost, those I no longer know.

We remained talking, fighting gently or viciously for what seemed like hours, but it was only minutes or perhaps a second, because it was only a dream.

I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things.

Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth.

My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war.

I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I was at home in the places that could never be. The places found only in dreams.

Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.

When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain.

I’m not letting you go, Fallon.”Her throat seized at his words. “Brad—““You don’t have to say anything. “I’m just laying it out there.

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

In America, we collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.

Oh, I have a very pure soul. It's only my private parts that have gotten me into trouble".

There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.

If you never bluff, you'll rarely get called. If you bluff all the time, you'll always get called.

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.