The universe is a big place. Maybe we're not in the best neighborhood.
I’m a monster. You’re a monster. We’re fucking inhuman monsters, and we don’t see a damned thing wrong with it.
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.
Hiding the past never works as well as simply neglecting it.
I’ve met a lot of people in the diplomatic corps who were in love with the sound of their own voice, but this guy. He and his voice should just get a room.
I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.
Who are you and what medications aren't you taking? Finn said.
The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.
Even then, retailers learned early that shoppers prefer their shopping suggestions not be too truthful. One of the great unwritten chapters of retail intelligence programming featured a personal shopp...
When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.
Is it painful? the groundskeeper asked. I am asking for science.
Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live.
Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss meaning something to someone, having that part of being human.
I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it without regret, because I knew that what she was was not contained in that hole in the ground. I ente...
I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.
I don’t care whether I really exist or don’t, whether I’m real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate. That’s something I can work on. It’s what I’m working on...
For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the plac...
A library is not information; it is a means of preserving information. In every case, before memory or information can be stored, someone must decide what must be stored. Someone must choose. Someone...
The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense.