We want all possible things made actual, the perpetual possibility of perfection, the best of all futures all at once.

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.

Asking why you should retaliate often solves the problem better than retaliation itself.

A faithful leader shall surely become a fruitful leadear

The power of classical music turns my words into fire.

Reading a book makes a conversation with the author (Robin Sharma on The Cure For Fear - Robin Sharma)

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

I didn't save you," he whispers, lips tickling my eyelashes. "You saved me.

Every time I get tested, I ask questions about it, and I watch how they do it.

The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven.

Lucidity, I maintain, is almost always desirable.