"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."

"I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide …"

"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition."

"The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made of trees, with flexible parts on which are imprinted many curious squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another hum…"