“If every babe who cried were still alive, well, then, the world would be a very crowded place, indeed.”

“A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.”

“The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.”

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”

“Crying makes me know I'm still real and still alive.”

“Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?”