What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

Humor was the enemy of desire.

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity.

For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological.

Words of others, helps weave our feathers.

I don't want to ever think that I don't know what to do. I want to deal with my own things, to perform my own roles, to be like, "I did this."

Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.

I don't care if your world is ending today because I wasn't invited to it anyway.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

There are a lot of things my mother taught me and helped me and disciplined me and made sure I stayed on the right track. And there are a ton of things that only my father could have taught me.

Unconscious insights or answers to problems that come in reverie do not come hit or miss... they pertain to those areas in which the person consciously has worked laboriously and with dedication.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.