...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance.

...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.

…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics.

No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.

This is the secret of the golden flower: if the heart can die the flower will bloom, die as you are so you can be reborn.

He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes.

There is no other possible way to a meaningful life other than going through your positive purpose on earth.

America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.

I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen.