People want things to be real. If you give them an excuse, they'll believe you.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?

He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care.

Now, for the first time in my life, I empathize 100 percent with Fluff McFly. My heart is beating at hamster-speed and I am throwing my eyes around the room, looking for some way out.

I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain, ” she says. “Not books.

A fellowship of secret scholars spent five hundred years on this task. Now we're penciling it in for a Friday morning.

Wainscott, Deepspace Operations Group, ’ said the man. ‘Wasn’t here, don’t exist, pleased to meet you.

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men

There is something indecent in words .

Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.

Real happiness in life comes from the mental capacity to adapt to any situation.

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word "lavish" and everything being magnificent.

Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.

The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.