We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

Testosterone poisoning can be fatal, Braveheart." (Delaney to Rowan)

There is earth below your earth, a deep room wheregas and oil, rock and stone, circulate like slow bloodthrough a body.

Treat life as a suicide mission, take on the impossible jobs and attack with the gusto of someone who has nothing to lose.... and when you revel in victory, make like it's a dirty win

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.

Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

If I thought someone was just chatting me up because of being on TV, it'd kill me.

Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.

Forgiveness is its own reward.

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.