Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

A flash of resentment. It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having...if not died, then having given up her life. It wasn't fair. "Life's not fair," said Ginnie, as if I had spoken aloud.

People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales.

It’s easier to kill people, when you’re dead yourself. I mean, it’s not such a big deal. You’re not so prejudiced any more.

There's nothing for getting you good fast like having to be good fast, if that makes any sense.

Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them two or three times a week.