"The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person."

"In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged."

"The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. It is a knowledge which has changed them forever."

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."