To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.

This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.