Everyone was going crazy, like they’d just witnessed the birth of Jesus and the invention of electricity at the same time. Jude was a rock star, their savior, and they were paying him homage.

Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.

Still trying to save the world?” “Always, ” I said, “and in case you haven’t noticed, it’s working. The world is still here.

I’m a realist, ” I said. “Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.

It's always amazing how when we're sure we've lost something for good, it winds up finding us.

You can change your perspective on any experience by given it a positive and empowering meaning.

It is unreasonable to expect all children to develop correctly in unnatural man-made electromagnetic radiation fields.

Potter, you can skin Malfoy's shrivelfig.

Play hardball with Musharraf, but don't cut off US aid.

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on. "What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life."

I want to believe I am looking into the white fire of a great mystery.

have the courage to write whatever your dream is for yourself.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

The basic idea is to shove all fundamental difficulties onto the neutron and to do quantum mechanics in the nucleus.