"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."

"This hunger for novelty — which makes sensuous love equally changeful and rapacious, which makes us seek th…"

"A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species …"

"Amrita's life was more colourful than the bright colours she used in her paintings—this is a good look at it."

"Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation? And what creature…"

"I cried, all right. I sat there at my desk and I cried for her, for me, for both of us, for all of us. I ca…"

"It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, move…"