The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.

Which is worse, hell or nothing?

Make me into anything, but just love me.

Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.