"What they learned [...] was to speak on the phones in such a way that your hearer couldn't help but understand what y…"

"You ask for her secret, though you might not know that's what you're about; and she can't tell you without learning i…"

"One winter night when he was a boy … he first saw a ring around the moon. He stared up at it, immense, icy, half as w…"

"He knew there must be a Ring, and he patted his pocket where he had it; he thought there should be a Best Man, though…"

"It seems to him that he extends backwards (or is it forwards?) without beginning (or is it end?) and he can't just no…"

"There wasn't any answer to that. So he tried harder, and the question got more circumstantial and tentative, and at t…"

"Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face be…"

"She wondered whether her head were so big as to be able to contain all this starry universe, or whether the universe …"

"The immense laughter of Bruno when he understood that Copernicus had inverted the universe — what was it but joy in t…"

"The world is founded on a pillar which is founded on the Deep."