“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the pain...”

“When in doubt, choose to live.”

“Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating...”

“Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.”

“The thing is, I mean, theres times when you look at the universe and you think, What about me? and you can just hear the universe replying, Well, what about you? ”

“Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”