You'll drift apart, it's true, but you'll be out in the open, part of everything alive again.

She longed for cutlasses, pistols, and brandy; she had to make do with coffee, and pencils, and verbs.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all.

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.