“I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.”

“But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.”

“The Christmas after Mom & Dad split up, they both went crazy buying us presents. Matt, Jonny, and I were showered with gifts at home and at Dads apartment. I thought that was great. I was all in fa...”

“I wonder if I cry whether my tears would be gray.”

“My existence is the only gift I have left to give, but it will have to do.”

“Which means every tomorrow is going to be worse than every today. Why feel sorry for myself today when tomorrow's bound to be worse?”

“We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arri...”

“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”