Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.

The story is one that you and I will construct together in your memory. If the story means anything to you at all, then when you remember it afterward, think of it, not as something I created, but rather as something that we made together.

You will learn to defeat the enemy.

Take me home, he said silently to Graff. In my dream you said you loved me. Take me home

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.