The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.

Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?

Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.

Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.

Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.

Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.

The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.

But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren’t around at all, so they could just spend time mooning over each other. Hero worship and all that stuff.

It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.

I’m talking about other kinds of hunger. Desire.

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.

Beginning with End in focus, a proof of self confidence

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.

Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.

In our community, we have those from the Middle East and those from Asia ... setting up shops and providing goods and services we should be providing for ourselves.

Trust in your truth. It will be the best decision you ever make.

I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.