"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper"
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible"
"The fact that we live...on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be"
"I know of a world with a million moons. I know of a sun the size of the Earth - and made of diamond"
"I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go"
"Perhaps we go to the forbidden door or window willingly because we understand that a time comes when we must go whether we want to or not...and not just to look, but to be pushed through. Forever"