The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.