“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.”

“I would like to give you more of my heart,but there is nothing more I can give you. I gave you everything and you crushed it into bits.”

“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.”

“I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.”

“People can make beautiful mistakes, dear, and each one is an arrow, a brilliant arrow, pointing out the right way to there.”

“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.”