“He didn't know that sometimes, the most awesome and complicated thing you can do is just stick around.”

“He didn't know that sometimes, the most awesome and complicated thing you can do is just stick around.”

“I keep saying there's no Choice, and what I've meant is that you can't choose: you have no right or ability to select one of the two alternatives. But I didn't go far enough. There's no Choice because the Choice itself is wrong. It's a false dilemma. The alternatives are not alternatives at all. Long versus short, quiet versus heroic: they're the same. In the scope of infinity, in a universe with no edge, human history is a flare and human consciousness is a blink. All lives are short and all lives are quiet.But all lives are glorious too, Cal. To live! To live like a human! You are ordinary and extraordinary all at once. You have a heart that contracts and relaxes and beats out your moments. You are alive and you know you are alive. Your too-short time is long e”

“The future was always before you. That was kind of the point of the future.”

“I hold a strict policy of automatic grudges against people everyone likes.”