“The main thing is not to be dead.”

“After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.”

“Forget the past, let the dead bury the dead. Things were working out fine, and that was the only thing he had to remember.”

“Curiosity is the main energy...”

“Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.”

“But most of us, for most of our lives, do not try to determine the causes of things. Rather, most of the time we try to get by; to eat, sleep, and of course, to reproduce. In other words, we are mainly concerned with surviving, getting along in a complex and changing world, in short, with adapting rather than with interference.”

“We tend to go on loving the things the people who loved us loved. They are invested with soul, even if the people are long dead, even if they do not turn out to be who you thought they were.”