“Begin—to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this and thou wilt have finished.”

“Truth is the mother of hatred.”

“If it squirms, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it doesn't work, it's physics. And if you can't understand it, it's mathamatics.”

“What do you know that you’re not telling me?""I don’t know what you know, so I don’t know what you don’t know.”

“They just didn't make them like that anymore. Nowadays she was lucky to get some mild flirtation from some leather-faced NRA lobbyist. Forget about doggy-style on an eighteenth-century canopied bed by a certified KGB agent who said things like “beg for it my little Yankee poodle.”

“Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwise experienced life intensely, for better or worse, you left a record. Those who lived a quiet, well-behaved, well-tempered life? Gone without a trace.”

“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”