Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

Any view of things that is not strange, is false.

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her.

There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before, and we cannot allow ourselves to feel it to deeply. We build a shell around it like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function, day in, day out, immune to others' pain and loss. If it were to touch us it would cripple us or make saints of us; but, for the most part, it does not touch us. We cannot allow it to.

You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.