“Life has to be a planetary phenomenon. You could no more have a partially occupied planet than you could half a cat or half a dog.”

“Basler finds my Lincoln the 'phoniest historical novel I have ever had the pleasure of reading.'… Also, 'more than half the book could never have happened as told.' Unfortunately, he doesn't say which half. If I knew, we could then cut it free from the phony half and publish the result as Basler's Vidal's Lincoln.”

“That was the universe: you could beat it once, you could float a message in a bottle across half of eternity, but the universe would always find a way to have the last laugh.”

“Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.”

“Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other side, forever and tragically parted, but I’m not worried about that, either. Some things,” Jace said”

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

“Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives?”

“The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.”

“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”

“Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.”