In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.