You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right.

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human.

I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.

Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.

He stared up at the stars, and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.

The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.