“Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.”

“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”

“My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.”

“The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy”

“Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.”

“Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.”

“Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.”