“Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration; stillness was lasting.”

“You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something on the ball—why, then, they might put up the cash after cutting themselves in on just about all of the profits. And, naturally, they'd run the show because it was their money and all you had done was the sweating and the bleeding.”

“Opportunities are rare in this life, and fairness, rarer still. So, when you discover a fair opportunity, go after as if it were your last because it very well might be.”

“Running, you should know, is a kind of stillness.”

“After all the evidence is in--after you've run all the facts by everything you know--and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith.”

“That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once.They are the meaning.”