“Regardless of the shape he took, Cal had a nearly endless capacity for worrywarting.”

“Humankind has endless potential, but shows an endless capacity to fall short of that promise.”

“and with that he took the bloody old towser by the scruff of the neck and by Jesus he near throttled him.”

“I took a course at Cal once called Statistical Analysis. And there was a guy in the course who used to make up all of his computations and he never used Sigma. He used his own initials. 'Cause he was the standard deviation.”

“Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.”

“Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn.”