“When we are born we are magical and loving and full of wonder. But darkness and ignorance surround us at every corner. Until the day someone calls us a monster or a devil and we believe them.”

“When the Devil gets bored he tells stories to his bats and these bats fly to us and give us these stories as nightmares.”

“The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view.”

“The way you see yourself is important, you see. It's as if you carve yourself out of your own interpretation. And so I became the name I was called.”

“Slit my skull open. Know what it'll be like? Like slitting open the guts of a great white shark. Stuff'll come out like you wouldn't fucking believe.”

“We consciously decide whether to consider people; we fall in love despite ourselves; we entirely fail to fall in love with people who fall in love with us. It is a mightily complicated business.”

“We grow up hungry for love, and in ways so deep as to remain unexpressed we long for our Maker to love us.”