This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

A child who is disillusioned abruptly, by his peers or siblings, being ridiculed for his faith and imagination, may choose never to believe in anything- tangible or intangible- again. To never trust or wonder.

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

After you hear even the shortest great story, it should fill you with a little bit of fear.

I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.

There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.