Steve needed to be careful here. He'd read mid-twentieth-century science fiction so he knew that once you started switching realities you ran into problems with nested levels of existence.

But you understand the relationship between pi and Gaussian curvature, right? pg 264

Grief doesn't have a face.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

I have never fired anyone or kept anyone because of ratings or because of entertainment. I keep the people that I think are the best.

I'm fiercely protective of my children even though we are on TV.

I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his.

And then the man reminded Max, with a serious but suave and practiced air, that freedom was a debt that could be repaid only by purchasing the freedom of others.

I hope that I'm the kind of person who would step in between somebody holding a gun at somebody else. I would like to be that stupid. I'd like to be that in love with life.

Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?

I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.

Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.