Are you sure you can't dematerialize? Not even a little?" "I'm sure.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

The journey itself is my home.

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

Shared grief is just pride with a sad face.

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

Generally, speed skaters don't run that much. I'm a little bit of an exception in that I run a lot.

So, if you haven't picked up some tips during an apprenticeship like that, you shouldn't be directing. It doesn't mean you can do it, but it loads you up with information.

It's OK to love your body the way it is.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

Liberals say that we are secular country with a majority of Christians, absolutely.

Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.