“See ya,” I said and turned to hightail it. “Wait!” he grabbed my arm. “Don’t you have a faint sense, a vague feeling, that we’ve met before?” “Nope,” I lied, warily. “You must,” he said. “Because reality is non-local, and once two particles have interacted, they’re forever intimately connected in some way.”

“Anytime you can learn for yourself, experience for yourself, apprehend directly and with no intermediary, you must do so.”

“Whatever he learned from me, I learned well from Leonardo that teaching is a matter of drawing out from men what is already in their hearts, and that men learn only what they want to.”

“Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with.”

“Don't men read books and take from them what is already in their own hearts?”

“You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.”

“Only a female could be as calculating and have the foresight that destiny requires,' the gypsy explained. 'Now fate is a man,' he went on, 'no planning, just go with the flow and see what tomorrow brings.”