But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep.

It is like reading two books, one with each eye, and understanding them both.

Be the time he finds his way out of the chamber and the planetarium, he has become me.

I have already lost the knowledge of the word whose sound has the shape of a soul. But perhaps it's not too late. Come with me. Hurry now. We still have a chance to be young.

Storytelling--that's not the future. The future, I'm afraid, is flashes and impulses. It's mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won't survive.

And just as he said of me, the thing that his heart desired was not the thing that he professed to want.

Think of it. Going to sleep and waking up later in a science fiction future. It'll be fantastic. The shock and the wonder of it.

In the moment when he died at my hand he had his own heart's desire—not the actual future, but a hope for the best possible future, one that he could not himself imagine.

As an act of goodwill you must sacrifice all the futures you might have for the one that he designs for you.

I truly do not know, and that unnameable feeling that comes with not knowing: it must be worse than grief. It must.

Love, no matter how high or low its form, must be requited, or the lover suffers.

We must endeavor to be whole, whether in or out of a relationship, basing happiness on our own internal resources rather than relying on someone else to full the perceived gaps in our lives.

Sleeping is the most common attempt to temporarily escape reality.

If only one person were perfectly informed there could never be a general crisis. But the only perfectly informed person is God, and he does not play the stock market.

Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.

In this country, we not only have a right to vote, we have a right to know who we can vote for.

It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your emotions guide the writing about a place.

I think the main thing I would say is, don't settle. Don't settle for something that's not great.