"I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family."

“We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that’s what being really human means.”

“I certainly had no intention of playing a man.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.”

Source : Song: True Believer, 2008

“What is your personal definition of "good"? A world in which everyone is universally empathetic and exercises love and respect with full change-making power.”

“My power is the ability to control water molecules and form them into ice.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.”

Source : Alastair Reynolds (2010). “Terminal World”, p.264, Hachette UK

“Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything.”

“One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next.”

Source : "Growing Up Buckley" by Christopher Buckley, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 26, 2009.