I can almost imagine a happiness without her, the ability to let her go, to feel our roots are connected even if I never see that leaf of grass again.'

If you act out of a paranoid fear of something happening, you will always make that thing happen.

Miles, as in 'to go before I sleep'?

If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.

We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.

I never really understood that massive collaboration involving hundreds of people is what makes movies possible, and it's also why I would agree that curiosity is not the most important human trait; the urge to collaborate is. Heck . . . only we have the ability to cooperate to make like online communities and space telescopes and imaginariums and movies. So the great thrill of this whole experience [my novel being made into a movie] for me was . .. .seeing humanity do what it's best at, which ultimately is not competing but cooperating.