“Retirement is the state of being able to afford to do things that you have always wanted to do but are now too old to even think about doing.”

“You can't know now what the results will be in the future. So for now, don't even think about it. Think about what you want to do and what you can do. That's very different from 'running away'. What do you want to do?”

“It's the things you do that you don't have to do that always determine the difference when it is too late to do anything about it.”

“Strength wasn‘t about being able to do everything alone. Strength was knowing when to ask for help and not being too proud to do it.”

“I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them alive. Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.”

“You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way”