I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.

Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.