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Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.

Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?" "I've never been accused of poetry before.

[H]e dreamed things for which he had no words.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?

Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.

[A]ll the ... people who visited me out of a sense of duty, who were relentlessly sympathetic and secretly indifferent.

Mortality, a writer of my generation once said, trumps morality.

An honest book is almost as good as a friend.

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

Slept too long. And I don't much like the world I woke up to.

Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.

Then his expression softened, as if he had solved a troublesome riddle. He smiled. "You do it," he said. Then he stepped over the edge.

Even a dry well may freshen.

There is a prejuidice imposed on us by our brief window of consciousness: things that move are alive, things that don't are dead.

Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

When does loyalty become martyrdom?

What a person runs from and what a person runs to aren't always as different as we hope.

Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it.

I wanted to sell tomorrow to the highest bidder and settle down forever in July second.

The view was in an unearthly way beautiful, but it was also unendurable. It implied too much

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

The rattle of plates and cutlery was the sound of empires falling.

It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light.

What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.

Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

We are as ephemeral as rain drops.

Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.

Vanished children, I can't think where I lost them ...

There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live.

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

I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.

knowledge wasn't created but discovered;

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

But the world is what it is and won't be bargained with.

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.

Fifteen minutes shy of two o'clock. The thick of the night. The zone of lost objectivity.

Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be settled by the storm.

It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.

It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.

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

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.

Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.

You can't really comprehend events like that, I thought. You can only endure them.

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

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

But physicians don't really save lives, of course, we prolong them;

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.

Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

The water in the ocean is like the water in a swimming pool, but you can't swim across it.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.

We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.

This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.