I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.

You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.

I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.

A bunch of people are gonna be mad at me, I’ve got some kind of medical issue that’s going to kill me in a while if I don’t deal with it, oh, and the island’s blowing up tomorrow and taking a whole lot of the country with it if I don’t fix it.” Thomas gave me a steady look. “So,” he said. “Same old, same old.