“The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.”
“But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains.”
“If I should die," said I to myself, "I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd.”
“... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.”
“Want to talk about Shakespeare's sonnets?" asked Orphu of Io.Are you shitting me?" The moravecs loved the ancient human colloquial phrases, the more scatological the better.Yes," said Orphu. "I am most definitely shitting you, my friend.”
“I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.”