“Courage is the chiaroscuro of characteristics. By that I mean I don’t know what I mean.”

“Today I’m feeling uncharacteristically chiaroscuro, and I don’t know what that means for my future, or as a word.”

“We were in love. When I say we, I don’t mean her and I. I mean me and my clone were in love with her. But she didn’t even know I existed, just as I didn’t know my clone existed. I still don’t know he exists.”

“I don’t like writers whose writing is so obvious that I can predict what he’ll write while I’m still taking in his current thoughts. Why, this means that I know what he knows, and the point of reading is to discover things and thoughts which I don’t already know or that haven’t occurred to me. The greatest amusement is surprise. Fellatio! (Bet you didn’t see that coming!)”

“I know what it means to be alone, especially in a large group of clones.”

“When I say something, I mean what I say, despite what a dictionary says I mean. Meanings of words are slaves that I put to work constructing my pyramids of thought.”

“A zebra is the piano of the animal kingdom. And I am the flute at the nudist colony, if you know what I mean.”