“Hoping for something is not the same as expecting it.”

“I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.”

“He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.”

“I like you both! And that's better than loving you, for that's expected, you know. But liking you, what a curious surprise.”

“People create these extravagant habitats because they have vision, love of beauty, hopes and dreams.”

“One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.”

“And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.”