and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?

I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.

I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.

We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

The fact is, everyone is in sales. Whatever area you work in, you do have clients and you do need to sell.

The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.

I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status

I stick to the script, I memorize the lines, cause life is movie that I've seen too many times.

I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.

The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.

Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty. And sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too full.