“Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.”

“Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.”

“And hey, if I keep loving you, maybe you'll eventually crack and love me too.”

“We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as elsewhere, intellectual inertia, the fashions of the moment, the weight of institutions, and authoritarianism are always to be feared. Heresies play an essential role by keeping our minds argumentative and alert.”

“Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!”

“Maybe that’s what the Masters are afraid of. Maybe celibacy isn’t as necessary as the Rule of Roke teaches. Maybe it’s not a way of keeping the power pure, but of keeping the power to themselves.”

“If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.”

“These changes are part of what keeps me interested and excited. Life won't let me keep coming at it from the same angle.”

“Someone to hold onto
And keep me from all fear
Someone to be my guiding light
And keep me ever dear
To keep me from my selfishness
To keep me from my sorrow
To lead me on to givingness
So I can see a new tomorrow.”

“Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.”