“Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.”

“Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.”

“@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.”

“Eyewitness News' is a clever plot to convince us that all the important events are happening somewhere else, to other people, at the same time we're literally dying in our beds.”

“Our faith was a flickering flame.”

“He looked like a being who'd voyaged back through time from a world that had overcome illness, pain, and conflict.”

“This was all our world was made of: decomposed visions. Not atoms --- bits of dreams.”