... but she believed and that was the price of belief. It gave no discounts to friendship (p370)

He wondered if anyone really ever changed, or if stuff just piled on and on, covering up, but never erasing all the different parts. How deep would you have to dig to find who you started out as?

Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

Increasing knowledge lessens the sphere of the supernatural.

To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.

Normality is what weak people call living, I call it death

We all have things that will knock us down, but there's always something that will pick you back up. It's about those moments that make everything worthwhile.

Enlightenment is lightening up.

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

The internet is a great thing but the worst thing that it brought to the music business was piracy and it's made making stuff available really difficult.