You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.

A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.

No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.

The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster.

The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won’t stop a missile, though. It won’t alter the trajectory of a gauss round.

Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?

Dead’s not good, but at least it’s simple.

Fayez whistled low. “That is not dead which can eternal lie. Or, y’know, whatever.

I’m a long-flight pilot. Pushing a little bubble of air-filled metal across an ocean of nothing is what I was born to do.

You can order the sun to come up if you time it right. I’m not driving this bus. Making it do what I want would be like talking someone out of a seizure.

You know, ” Naomi said, “if you’re looking at hundreds of people burning to death as a problem solving itself, that may be more evidence that you’re on wrong side.

Alas! he is cold, he cannot answer me.

I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I was Drama Club President every year, and then I auditioned for conservatory acting programs.

I have a look that girls want to copy.

Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians.

People like passion in politics.

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

You know that every bead of sweat falling off your head, every weight you've pumped - the history of that is all in your eyes.

There are all kinds of values within the films but I don't make message films.

Something was comforting about strangers—it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unknowable mass.

It's really difficult to make things, and a lot of times you don't know you're at the end of something.