The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

I've always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should, as it must. But I am glad that day is not today.

He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again.

What does true even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the air they melt away.

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.

The thing is, you throw brains and souls into an animal and stir, you don’t really know what you’re going to get.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward-toward what?