... demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever.

She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.

...food was at least three million per cent more delicious when you ate it immediately after thinking you were going to die.

He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.

In that eternity of his, where everybody will be happy, how could he feel the lack of her, the loss of her?

What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure.

The average man is not hard to mystify.

We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.