“Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe?Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know.”

“He didn't know what he wanted. He only knew what he didn't want.”

“She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.”

“I know you said you didn't want this, but here's the thing. I don't believe you.”

“He knew he would have to believe in order to go where she had been; knew that, if he believed, he could go there even if it didn't exist, if it was make-believe. He moved the hand she had drawn around her down her long flesh, and with a little sound she pressed herself against him. He searched himself for that old will, long in disuse. If she went there, ever, he didn't want to be left behind; wanted to never be farther from than this.”

“He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.”