How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?

There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.

There exists a world. In terms of probability this borders on the impossible. It would have been far more likely if, by chance, there was nothing at all. Then, at least, no one would have began asking why there was nothing.

The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about.