“Two infinities: the one that stretches to the beginning but never touches-when you halve and halve and halve, infinitely-and then the one that spreads out into the endless, endless future, the endless, endless, distance.The set of infinities that is itself infinite.”

“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”

“... history is forever unfinished, forever in process; endless because our needs are endless.”

“One's not half of two; two are halves of one.”

“Infinity is against us," I told him. "There's no way for us ever to count it or control it or understand it.”

“There is no endless silence of infinite space, for in reality there is no space, no silence and no void.”

“It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.”