There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.

If something wants to be a story, it will be.

But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out their duvets or even God shaking out the fabric of space-time.

I sit up in bed slowly, feeling the disappointment trickle away like puddles after a rain shower.

I feel like crying. There's something so sad about broken concrete.

Nothing means anything but you still have to follow the rules.

The sky is grey, with a thin TV-static drizzle that hangs in the air like it's been freeze-framed.

Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.

Universe is a giant with his body and we humans are a giant with our minds!

It is not important how many competitions you have attended, it only matters how many you have won.

Am I too late?" Caleb asked as he joined them. "Did he do something stupid?""Yeah. On both counts." Tristan stalked past Nick.

Three things give hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses breathing cold air and eating dry food.

The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

I got thrown out of school several weeks in my senior year being caught in the girls' dorm. This was 1954, friends. The girls' dorm was off limits. Even to girls, I think.

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

The distracting feeling of disbelief when you're finally doing something you've procrastinated on for notable amounts of time.

I don’t drink to get drunk. That’s just not cute.