The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all. - Isaac Asimov

"Oh, hell! I can't sleep!" "Neither can I! But I might as well try — as a matter of principle." Twelve hours later, sleep was still just that — a matter of principle, unattainable in practice.

I cannot say what I feel in any human sense, Partner Elijah. I can say, however, that the sight of you seems to make my thoughts flow more easily, and the gravitational pull on my body seems to assault my senses with lesser insistence

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.