I was strong from losing them, maybe, but any goodness in me came from having them." (p. 124)

I should have known he’d be trouble as soon as he walked into my workshop, but I couldn’t have known he’d be the death of me.

It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.

I was never a topical songwriter.

Underway on nuclear power.

I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.

Freedom from suffering is a great happiness.

People like givers, people want to help givers. I get stuff all the time.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.