So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.

Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell!

It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water.

Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

Life: I'll never understand it.

If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.