“To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.”

“The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits.”

“The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.”

“To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.”

“Everyone who dies out there dies of confusion.”

“Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.”

“Joan Wernick said she took two lessons from the crash. “You’re going to die when you’re supposed to die.”

“As he walked along the runway, he came upon a United Airlines pilot. “He tried to sit up,” Martz said. “I saw a huge triangular hole in his forehead and I told him to just lie still and that help was on the way, but it was too late for him.”

“But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a home with all the modern conveniences. It's not a 2,000-mile-long wall to keep Mexicans out or more accurate weapons to kill them. It's not a better low-fat meal or a faster computer speed. It's not a deodorant, a car, a soft drink, a skin cream. The way forward is found on a path through the wilderness of the head and heart---reason and emotion. Thinking, knowing, understanding.”