Quantum theory tells us, Mr. Thomas, that every point in the universe is intimately connected to every other point, regardless of apparent distance. In some mysterious way, any point on a planet in a distant galaxy is as close to me as you are.
You amaze me and scare me. I can’t figure where you came from or how you got to be what you are, but you couldn’t have come where you’re more needed.
In this world, Evil works through countless surrogates. Its name is Legion. But Good works through surrogates, as well, and they are legion, too.
The problem with omens is that they never come with an illustrated pamphlet explaining what they mean.
Perhaps this was a day of firsts. The day one dies, of course, is a first in any life.
Sometimes he found it frustrating to be a sadist in an age when self-mutilation was all the rage.
Dreams that are as rich as cream while they unfold are skim milk when we wake, and in time they wash out of our minds, leaving as little residue as water filtered through cheesecloth.
Her imagination was such that she could hear the song of the bird when it was still but a yolk in an egg.
When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance.
The blend she preferred was fragrant and so rich in caffeine that the fumes alone would cure narcolepsy.
To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke’s good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.
I tend to believe in the traditional architecture of life and the afterlife. This world is a journey of discovery and purification. The next world consists of two destinations: One is a palace for the spirit and an endless kingdom of wonder, while the other is cold and dark and unthinkable.
None of us ever has more than this moment. Tomorrow becomes today, today becomes yesterday. The best I can do for my boy is give him enough todays that he can make a past for himself that will have had some meaning in it.
When I see those sad, abused and neglected animals on those commercials I feel despair for the human race. Too many people repay loyalty with faithlessness and give no thought to their own final hours when the might have to ask another to grant them the mercy that they withheld from those who trusted them.
Everything is more than it seems, but nothing is as mysterious as it appears to be.
People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiving themselves when they’re children.
Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.
There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people’s free will when they decided to do the Devil’s work.
Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool.
Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.