“He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction all the way through. He did remember, as a small boy, being r...”

“When in doubt, choose to live.”

“Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating...”

“Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.”

“The thing is, I mean, theres times when you look at the universe and you think, What about me? and you can just hear the universe replying, Well, what about you? ”

“Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”