The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.

To Vik Lovell who told me dragons did not exist, then led me to their lairs.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.