“Never. I promise you this: they will stay together. They will be safe. My children will be accompanying them to the same home.”

“I should have been the King of Earth, or at least that's what my memory tells me...”

“I don't need a speech. I have all I need to say right up here. He pointed at his head in confidence.”

“Few men want to achieve greatness for humanity, thought Jeffrey. What better person is there to work for?”

“We need to be able to control - erm, guide the masses that can't help control themselves.”

“Humans and their governments have effectively neutered the population to the point that they're just skinbags, mouth-breathers and pseudo-intellectuals repeating political, religious or academic rh...”

“There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatred and those that create love, compassion, equanimity and joy. Spirituality is germination and sp...”

“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated me - the humiliation of it - as a soprano.These, by contrast, are...”

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”