quotes

"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

—Arthur C. Clarke

"There was an episode, one of my favorite moments in Star Trek, when Captain Kirk looks over the cosmos and says, 'Somewhere out there someone is saying the three most beautiful words in any language.' Of course, your heart sinks and you think it's going to be, 'I love you' or whatever. He says, 'Please help me.' What a philosophically fantastic id

"It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story."

—Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

"My life amounts to no more than a single drop in a limitless ocean; yet, what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"

—David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, an

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. Well all know that our time in this world is limited. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly mome