“The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not,”

“I used to be someone.Someone named Jenna Fox.That's what they tell me. But I am more than a name. More than they tell me. More than the facts and statistics they fill me with. More than the video clips they make me watch.More. But I'm not sure what.”

“They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory, like a pain of an amputated leg no longer there.”

“Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.”

“How ironic that there always seemed to be more people welcoming your birth and mourning your death than there were throughout your life.”

“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.”