You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.'

You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.

God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.