It means that no blue ribbon is forever. Someday - if the world doesn't explode itself in the meantime - someone will run a two-minute mile in the Olympics. It may take a hundred years or a thousand, but it will happen. Because there is no ultimate blue ribbon. There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.

The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood.

The turtle couldn't help us.

How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?

Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more human they are to us, the more appealing they are to us and the more effective the horror tends to be.

Successful rebellions always begin in secret.