“...occasionally I like carrying raw steel to remind myself of an important lesson.The blade's an extension of the hand, the agent--no pun intended--of my will. Most people understand this immediately of edged weapons...The trick--and few are subtle or sophisticated enough to master it--is to see that this is equally true... by implication, of all machines.”

“- ... It causeth unease. - Oh it doth, doth it?”

“I would write, Dear Diary, Today I convinced myself it's ok to give up. Stick with the status quo, now just isn't the time. But my reasons aren't reasons, they're excuses and the truth is, I'm scared Stefan. I'm scared that if I let myself be happy for one minute, that the my world's going to come crashing down and I don't know if I'll be able to survive that.”

“When all normal rules are suspended, and ordinary things that used to be important suddenly become meaningless.”

“We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it...”

“What I didn't understand, all those years when I was waiting for my life to start, was that it had already started. I was already living it! Those were the most important years, and I didn't even know it.”

“Beneath the quiet equanimity, the simmering obsessions.”