The world is not a wish-granting factory.

The French verb aimer has two meanings. And that’s why he liked her, and loved her. She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.

I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.