I choose to live in a universe that has some hope in it.

You've done all this thinking, you've seen all the possibilities for the future - good ones and bad ones alike - and yet the only ones you are willing to belie…

I desire [belief] enough to act as if I believed, maybe that's what faith is. Or deliberate insanity.

She had passed his test. She had listened to him the way no one else did - without impatience, without finishing his sentences, without letting her gaze waver …

Every crowd has a silver lining.

Basically I'm an optimist. Intellectually I can see man's balance is about fifty-fifty, and his chances of blowing himself up are about one to one. I can't see…

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.