Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

The basis of everything, of all knowledge, is the ability to read.

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.