“I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.”

“We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them.”

“If I could believe in myself, why not give other improbabilities the benefit of the doubt?”

“If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them. Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do. Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.”

“It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.”

“Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be.”

“You don't need to have it all. You only need to figure out how much is enough.”

“Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down. It just delivered her back to herself, over and over and over.”