"Why is it,"he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?""Because I like you,"she said, "and I don't want anything from you."
"Are you happy?"
"The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us."
"Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
"Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!"
"It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away."