The light filtered throught the leaves and pine needles above as if through lace, the ground spotted in shadow.

Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.

I am a giant squid of anger.

How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.

Books are seldom useful unless they are also beautiful.