“Love destroys. Thought creates.”

“My love for him was -- Tyranny.”

“It seems the loneliest place in the world for something so lovely.”

“Wait," I say. "I think you're mistaken. Saying there is no dream is the same as saying everything is a dream. Isn't it? Everyone's a dreamer? Extraordinary things happen all the time even when we're awake. What I meant to suggest to you, if indeed that was me in your dream doing the suggesting, is that there is only one world. This one. The dream is real. The ordinary is the wonderful. The wonderful is the ordinary.”

“a dream to one day design terrifically odd-shaped swimming pools for a California clientele.”

“A man who has to forge his own tools, his own language, is a man who is going somewhere.”

“When a country goes to war, men can no longer operate free and open laboratories. The Government would like to know what you are doing. Businesses became corporations, the individual thinker became unpatriotic.”