“A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.”

“You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.”

“Out of curiosity, why would you have tried to destroy the world?” “Ever attempted to hunt down a parking space at Christmas? Buy a shirt in a store the day after Thanksgiving? Those two things alone will make you doubt the humanity of humans, and question if survival of the species is in anyone’s best interest. What are we fighting for, anyway? Better department store sales?”

“I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.”

“A man with no one to revere, Julian said, is a man alone.' At that moment, he seemed to consider such loneliness the worst of fates, a sentence he would not have imposed upon the vilest man on earth. And yet, at times, I thought now, he had seemed to impose that very loneliness upon himself.”

“If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.”