Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives.

A promise unkept will take a man's mind.

What was attraction if not a form of telepathy? The wild luck of two people feeling the exact same thing at the exact same time. That word again: purpose.

Life will always get in the way of living.

His smile was bright and sweet and hot enough to melt solid steel. "Is this the part where I kiss you?""If you like.""Oh, " he said, "I like.

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

The span of life is waning fast Beware unthinking youth beware! Thy soul's eternity depends Upon the record moments bear!

As incarnations go by, the atom gets more complex. That is, your being, the part of you that reincarnates from lifetime to lifetime, the aggregate, grows thicker and denser.

When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

The cool thing about my character was that it's not that digital. I get to put hours of prosthetic makeup on and see a different creature altogether. I've seen how he looks and it's really cool.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.