The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

Yes' Simon nodded. 'This would suggest that these patterns grow inside the batteries until a critical point is reached, when the shapes develop no further, and the phone ceases to function.

The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you.

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

As a parent, do the right thing and you don't get in trouble. If you lead a charmed life, you better act like it.

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

'Eveything is made of light,' he said, 'and the space between isn't empty.'

The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.

I can give the loser leave to chide.