The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.