“Growing up in my family meant ambushes on your birthday, crossbows for Christmas, and games of dodge ball where the balls were occasionally rigged to explode. It also meant learning how to work you...”

“Parthenogenesis means never having your mother tell you to stop doing that or you'll go blind.”

“I really dont think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You dont know where its been. Enid Healy”

“The Argentine tango isn't here to play nicely with the other children. The Argentine tango is here to seduce your women, spill things on your rug, and sneak out your bedroom window in the middle of...”

“Crazy gets all the knives.”

“The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters." Alice Healy”

“It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”