“The hardest part of writing is the same as doing your homework...it's staying seated in your chair.”

“You know you're doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights....”

“Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.”

“My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?”

“You let people into your life and you ended up getting hurt. Or hurting them. Either way, the road to pain was paved with other people, and she wanted no part of it anymore”

“It's like touching you in your unmentionables,” Maleficarum said. “We never could, m'lady, not ever. Mr. Dante wouldn't like it.”

“The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.”