“What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away?”

“People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing.”

“It's not enough just to learn what there ISN'T; we need to know what there IS.”

“But a light now waxed within him at the knowledge that such wonders as he had been shown could exist.”

“There are different kinds of truth. And if our kind is more mature than theirs, it's so only because we know that.”

“If nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be.”

“Wherever he went he would be a stranger, for there was no home in the world for such as he.”