“There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.”

“Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time" deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.”

“All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?”

“We all know that the inevitability of time is a shadow against our lives, a creeping knife,and yet by living fully we can slow down that time until our joy makes our lives worth a million lifetimes.”

“We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life’s dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billion years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.”

“So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”