“Bones has always been smart," I muttered. "His intelligence was just camouflaged under a mountain of p**sy."Cat”

“Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes.”

“Racing is about discipline and intelligence, not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end.”

“Kindness is seen as weakness and intelligence worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch.”

“Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality.”

“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.”