Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic." "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.

For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?