“While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.”

“Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.”

“What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.”

“The days were long and lonely. The sudden and total deprivation of such basic human necessities as exercise and fresh air, association with other people, my own clothes and things like newspapers, radio, cigarettes books and a host of other things, made my life very hard.”

“It finally dawned on me that if I was going to do my own show, all those things I lectured about and obsessed about would make for an interesting world”

“But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse”

“There is a maxim about the universe which I always tell my students: That which is not explicitly forbidden is guaranteed to occur.”

“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.”

“My own feminism is just human rights. I’m a woman who has rights to her own choices; I can do whatever I want whenever I want. It’s just that simple if I were a man it would be the same thing.”

“You are the universe. expressing itself as a human for a little while.”