He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew until no man could be called his equal.

It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.

... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.

She was ... unhappy. It was part of her, you could not separate her from it. She was sad the way a horse is strong or a bird flies.

Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?

The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.

Excessively sweet praise can rot your ego over time.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations.

I'll just have itchy, watery eyes!

I expect my next job to be outside government.

The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted.

I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.