The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Please call me Eddie if it will help you to relax.

I don't really have any advice, other than to say it's the most appallingly difficult thing I've ever tried to do and I wish I had a better idea of how to do it. In my experience what you end up with is the by-product of your failure to achieve what you set out to do. It may turn out OK, but it wasn't what you meant and you've no idea how you got there.

He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.