"It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either."

"There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it."

"Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing."

"If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal."

"The tapestry of existence shows us that the legacy we leave is written in the hearts of others."

"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

"It is a unyielding truth that every second given to regret is a precious second stolen from creation — an essential principle for the reflective life."