If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.

Death hath no dominion.

But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.

Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.

Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.

At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.

Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.