“We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.”
“If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!”
“The moral of the story is that grief, to the person of feeling, is a permanent wound, not a transient state.”
“Transient guests are we.”
“I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an expla nation even if we still have a long way to go before we find it, is a more beautiful, more wonderful place than a universe tricked out with capricious, ad hoc magic.”
“Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news.”