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.

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.

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.

She hadn't gone back in time. The idea was

The cure to eliminate fake news is that people stop reading 140-character tweets and start reading 600-page books.

Music- what a powerful instrument, what a mighty weapon!

Even from just a little thing, it's still possible to die.

[I]t was the color of someone buying you an ice cream cone for no reason at all.

With hard work and focus dreams do come true.

The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.

I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank.

Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.

Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

I don't go thinking I'm going to lose. I never go into a tournament thinking that. I'll do the best that I can.