“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”

“O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!”

“And I thought of the Transit of Venus: that though the bodies be vast and distant, and their motions occult, their hesitations retrograde, one could, I thought, with exceeding care and preparation, observe, and in their distance, know them, triangulate to arrive at the ambits of their motivation; and that in this calculation alone, one might banish uncertainty, and know at last what constituted other bodies, and how small the gulf that lies between us all.”

“People will promise you the moon, offer you the stars, but in the end, the only heavenly body you can truly count on is your on!”

“Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.”

“Life is a physics problem. Bodies in motion.”