Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.

I went to work at the library. I know that sounds crazy but I didn't know where else to go. Besides, at the library I was constantly surrounded by people. And I loved my job, surrounded by so many books, so many lives, so much of the past.

When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.

Power, wealth and immortality--they don't bring happiness. You will never know what the word means.

Don’t be afraid, be terrified

This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for.

He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.' I lean over. My hair smothers him. 'Then you should never have been born,' I say.