But we think that if a human were to violate conventional causality—''By time traveli

The thing about memories wasn't that many of them inevitably faded, but that repeated recall of the ones you remembered burnished them into shining, gorgeous lies

As he drifted off, his father came to visit him, clothed in all his possible shapes.

Isn’t that the fantasy? If I go back in time, knowing what people back then didn’t know, then I can change history! But history made you what you are. And it’s bigger than any one man.

This is the last moment of contentment untainted by sorrow, when the brain hesitates before delivering the message to the heart that it knows it must.

But life isn't neat the way a story is. And if you try to pretend it is, then you just make yourself unhappy, or screw yourself over.

I like Carson. I really like Carson. I can hand an idea to him that's still a little rough, and he can turn it over and tumble it and hand it back to me shining. And I can do the same for him.

But who, in these modern times, slept well?

I can’t comprehend why any black man with even a lick of sense would have the slightest bit of interest in time travel. Going backward in time? A black man? You have got to be out of your mind.

Later—how much later? Hard to tell. In times of tragedy clocks will trick you—Philip stood in the kitchen doorway.

If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was “false, ” the best thing he could say is that it was “interesting.

You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.

There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.

Go back to bed, Cowan. I want no promises from you.

You have no idea how cute you look with all those snowflakes in your hair, ” he murmured.“And you look cute with hypothermia. I hope to God you can get a real coat while you’re here.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

I want you and it will be so, While I have life.

You've got to be tough to win.

Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ.

I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.

There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.