“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
“When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of?”
“We are the dust of the Universe, trying to understand itself.”
“The mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out. Everything else maybe, from the atom to the universe, everything except itself.”
“Let's try the library,' I tell him. 'We can find out anything there!”
“I used to toy with the notion that when we die we find out what our lives have amounted to, finally. I'd never imagined that we could find that out when somebody else dies.”