“Art is feminine... Look, if you're handsome and young and beautiful, well, people are always going to say that you're gay.”

“If you want to be happy, work with all your heart.”

“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”

“I feel like Ive been split open and stuffed with sunshine.”

“But that woman is an encyclopedia!Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through!”

“A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!”

“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When a religious scheme is shattered...it is not merely the vices that are let lo...”

“You are the silence between the notes. The white space between the letters. The missing that makes everything else a something.”

“Parenting a pre-teen is quite something.”

“Something else has happened with computers.”