“Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it.”

“Here is the major life question: Does our experience create our identity ... or does our identity create our experience?”

“The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.”

“What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?”

“A handful of experiences when I was small have made me a confirmed nonathlete. In psychology (okay, Twilight) they teach you about the notion of imprinting, and I think it applies here. I reverse-imprinted with athleticism. Ours is the great non-love story of my life.” — Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns)”

“His lips parted, but long years of experience with Ramses, and to some extent, Emerson, had taught me how to turn a conversation into a monologue.”