One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

All that we were has led us to where we are, but tells us little of where we’re going. Memories are a weight you can never shrug off.

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.