When you're young, all evolution lies before you, every road is open to you, and at the same time you can enjoy the fact of being there on the rock, flat mollusk-pulp, damp and happy.

I've been in love for five hundred million years…

...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still hadn't found mine.

Writing is the emotional morphine.

The thing no one understood about Gwendolyn Reese was that she was three ages at once: thirty chronologically, forty-five intellectually and fifteen experientially.

Every silver spoon is tarnished.

Shuki’s wisdom: "Sometimes things happen, and the only choice you have is to accept it, and learn to make a life anyway.

The issue is not so much being loved but being loving which leads to the same wonderful feeling you experience when someone loves you.

If you want a quality act as if you already had it.

An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.

Our faith in Christ, who became poor, and was always close to the poor and the outcast, is the basis of our concern for the integral development of society’s most neglected members.

The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.

The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.