Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.

Sarcasm doesn't appear to work on him. If that's true, I'm in trouble: It's my normal mode of communication.

I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.

What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other side of the horizon, where the stars burned undimmed in the velvet sky above his head and the virgin ground lay untrodden beneath his feet?