“Suddenly we could all hear, we could all listen, and instead of being caught up in our finite little balls of bullshit, we could all become players in that great universal orchestra again.”

“We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.”

“We are all caught in the stream of a complicated legacy - a proof of the limits of human reason, a proof of our boundlessness. A declaration that were were down here on this crowded, lonely planet, a declaration that we mattered, we living clumps of ash, that each of us was once somebody, that we strove for what we could never have, that we could admit as much. That was us - funny and lousy and great all at once.”

“If all would play first violin, we could not obtain an orchestra. Therefore esteem every musician in his place.”

“We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.”

“If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.”