I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?

If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?" Make them stay." And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?" Ellie shrugged. "I don't know." Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away.

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.