Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

The difference between science fiction and fantasy … is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees.

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along―the same person that I am today.

The only process you've mastered is the process of elimination, and the only reason you've mastered that is because you can do it in the toilet.