All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.

Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.