“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.”

“We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence.”

“People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it with a sense of discovery, and it worries me.”

“It seems obvious to me that the more queer books there are in the wolrd, the more queer kids we reach with the message that they are not alone, the fewer LGBT kids become one of these grim statistics.”

“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.”

“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.”