Quote by Joseph Heller

“But before the grandeur and intricacy of Nature, he was, like Ptolemy and Kepler, exhilarated as well as disarmingly modest. Just before his death…

— Carl Sagan

“He lay on his back, watching the great river of stars wash across the sky. Worlds above, worlds below. It made him feel very…

— James R. Sanford

“He was stronger and had more depth than he knew and he liked these new discoveries about himself.”

— Phaedra Patrick

“How deeply (beyond words) he speaks to us about the mysteries of our common human nature. And how unstrained and easy his greatness is.”

— Saul Bellow

“Man is a continent, but his conscious mind is no larger than a back garden…man consists almost entirely of unrealized potentials.”

— Colin Wilson

“It was not an inordinately large ass, yet the heft of it seemed to connect him to an immense source of gravitation, one for…

— Michael Chabon

“It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended. He felt…

— James Joyce

“His words sounded foolish to his own ears. He was not impressive. He was small like the world.”

— Anne Ursu

“At night, the valleys of my body curve around him, creating a geography I never knew existed before, where size is relative and more…

— Tiffany Baker

“He was a true voluptuary, in his own modest way, with a voluptuary’s genius for softening the world around him.”

— Suzanne Berne

“His kind of man needed to lift up his eyes and look as far as possible beyond his own small, limited patch of ground.”

— Robert Seethaler

“He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.”

— Mary Shelley