There are some days when no matter what I say it feels like I'm far away in another country & whoever is doing the translating has had far too much to drink.

There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.

Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.

He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.

We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.