Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.

Everything you see is based on fact of a event thats already happen, Even light only travels so fast.

Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. "Hero" isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.