“The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.”

“After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.”

“All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that’s the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it’s life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?”

“When real intimacy occurs, any where, any how, it comes close to feeling we live forever, and we are not alone.”

“What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.”

“It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.”

“What he feared most was the blind spot between us and the future, the space between identities where we could get lost forever.”

“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”

“The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.”

“Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove
An unrelenting foe to love,
And, when we meet a mutual heart,
Come in between and bid us part?”