Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world.

Ladies and gentlemen.” He [Jabba] sighed. “Meet the kamikaze of computer invaders...the worm.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn.

So long as they speak your name, you shall never die.

When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.

I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.