💬 Quotes

"A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare to it now."

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers."

"But it is a rocket. A rocket is a thing that has been brought to life, and it is a thing that will eventually die."

"In the Zone, categories break down. There is no right way to be. There is only the rocket."

"Nature does not feature lines and circles: it features edges, and in the middle of edges, it features flows."

"It all goes together. Creative paranoia means sensing that there's a connection between things that others don't see."

"Reader, it is your fate to worry about light. The rest of us are only too happy to be enclosed in darkness."

"Despereaux Tilling was born with his eyes open. He was born small, and he was not well, and at the end of a month, he was not any bigger."

"Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell the story."

"I honor you, Princess. I honor you. I would do anything for you. I would even die for you."

"The world is dark and light, and it is a terrible and beautiful thing to be a part of it."

"It is a terrible thing to love someone who does not love you back. But it is a worse thing to have never loved at all."

"How can you expect a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold?"

"A belly is a thankless creature; it never remembers past favors, it'll ask for more tomorrow."

"You're supposed to work with your head, not your back."

"The sun stood high... Shukhov felt fine. He had had a good day."

"He didn't complain about the cold, the work, or the hunger; he simply focused on the task at hand."

"They were prisoners, but they were still men who needed to find some small measure of pride in their labor."

"The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities."

"If we discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable by everyone, not just by a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist."