Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub.

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.

He seemed not to know the uses of silence.

The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.

Put the two of us together and we become like moonlight and fireflies... all burning and glowing and lighting up the night.

Life is a never-ending poetry of love.

The sense of alienation that inspires wonder, awe and fear in us is enough of a proof that life does not belong to the planet Earth.

My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.

Anyone who can say and do anything better than that already done or said anytime, anywhere and considered then the best, then it is good to state for him that he has a brilliant brain in his head.

Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.

I got back to my hometown, and everyone is like, "I wish I could retire at 39." So they put it in perspective.

With China, their primary weapon in China is what they've done with the devaluation of their currency.

[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.

HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize as a way to deceive ourselves about our invincibility. But it is a delusion.