There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.

We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.

That’s the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else.

There's no such thing as a normal life. Some lives are just more interesting than others, and we shouldn't judge people for being boring.

One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.

Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called "natural world." Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rats, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don't seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really.