“Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.”

“Sometimes, the words we speak are not the words we want to say.”

“I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.”

“Thirty-one years old, and already Naaliyah was more comfortable with insects than people: they were more chemically predictable, more elegantly designed.”

“It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.”

“A fool is made more of a fool, when their mouth is more open than their mind.”

“There are few things in the world that we don't know. Science has explained everything away.”