“They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.”

“Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.”

“No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or twohundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to existanywhere in the United States of America.”

“What if I'm so broken I can never do something as basic as feed myself? Do you realize how twisted that is? It amazes me sometimes that humans still exist. We're just animals, after all. And how can an animal get so removed from nature that it loses the instinct to keep itself alive?”

“Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.”

“And my name sounds like flowers in his mouth.”

“Imagine trying to live without air.Now imagine something worse.”