Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

My love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity, ~ Hazel Lancaster.

A drink this good deserves one's best posture.

I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

Everything's uglier close up," she said. "Not you," I answered.

History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making decisions that irrevocably shaped the world that we live in today; just as today, we are making subtle, irrevocable decisions that people of the future will remember as revolutions.