I don't blame you for everything, she told me. Just the stuff my friends & I can agree on..

Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began..

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left..

You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time..

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise..

He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time..

Falling into Place: deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfect….

There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as….

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries..

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time..

In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love And there may be many things we forget in t….

You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and s….

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'.

The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it..

Trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though they had the same size feet as us, they wer….

I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true..

We went to a church that had missionaries who'd come back once a year from Fiji & give talks. I remember one of them saying it was very hard work tel….

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short..

The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it.

There came a moment in the middle of the song when he suddenly felt every heartbeat in the room & after that he never forgot that he was part of some….

I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things….