After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.

What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?” Bast asked curiously. “I haven’t the slightest idea. I was never caught. I think making you sit and listen to the rest of my story should be punishment enough.

You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people's lives to be better. You want to make that happen.

Science is just magic with better PR.

How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.

A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection