Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do, and that if you choose wrong, there may not be that many things left to choose. Sometimes the wrong choice is the only one that lets you face the end with dignity, grace, and the awareness that you're doing the right thing. I'm not sure we can recognize those moments until they've passed us.

When you're going to play with dead things, do it during the daylight.

And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.

Is there any time in your life when you do not feel the need for caffeine?" "Sure. Sometimes I'm asleep.

He didn't have much strength to offer, but what he did have was hers without question.

You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.

Nobody cares if you're an idiot, as long as you're a useful one.