The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.

Death calls ye to the crowd of common men.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening.

Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.