“Without ethics, science would be cruelty.”

“Come closer, my dears, let me give you a warning,Of the fate that befalls those who stay out past morning,In the darkest hours before the dawn,When witches roam and demons spawn,And children die wi...”

“You are my star and you have made me see, he tells her, and I am the air beneath your wings, never rending, never ending.”

“I cannot breathe, or see, nor swim,My darkness is composed of him.”

“What happened out there?I almost got quarking toasted by a dragon.A dragon, he repeats, scandalized. Are you mad? Or have you been skulking around the bars of Barbary XIII?”

“If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell.”

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitud...”

“The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.”

“Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful a...”

“How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.”

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”

“Happy girls are the prettiest”

“A girl can still admire, cant she? Even those who cant afford to go in the store can still window-shop. Right? Knowing he wasnt for me didnt mean I couldnt covet the merchandise.”

“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”