It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have done science and technology in some form.

You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet. Take up dancing to forget.

I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.