But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 62 chapter 8

You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire planet-had no choice but to grow away from the tradition of savagery.