So many die without our caring, decline to silence in rooms beyond hearing. We honor the dead and abhor the dying.- from the story "De Composition

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

I've never flown a kite.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.

Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

Contrary to popular belief, the experience of terror does not make you braver. Perhaps though, it is easier to hide your fear when you're afraid all the time.

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.

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When Christians sing about the wrath of God, we are singing about ourselves.

There was a little element of feeling like a cow.

I am the master of my genes, not the victim of them.

The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.

The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there's only one other choice.

All games contain the idea of death.

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.