“There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.”

“You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.”

“Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.”

“Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.”

“Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.”

“It’s all real. It came out of my head. Everything in there is real. Even the things invented and imagined.”

“The correct understanding of life, let me tell you, is love despite everything. Love despite everything, that is the aim and object of life. Love, you see, is the only thing that pays in the long run, even though it might seem a dead loss in the short run.”

“Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.”

“Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.”

“Relentless Pleistocene selection was shaping everything that would make up humanity. Even love was a by-product of evolution. Love, and the pain of loss.”