“An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils .”
“I visualized myself pulling on my mental thinking cap, jamming it down around my ears as I had taught myself to do. It was a tall, conical wizard s model, covered with chemical equations and formulae: a cornucopia of ideas.”
“The universe never complains. When you re wrong or right, She always loves and cares, She always gives and shares. When you get lost she becomes the light, Helps you to find what is right. But she never forgets To show you the light.”
“He s one fry short of a Happy Meal.”
“I am not the sharpest knife in the knife-thing.”
“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”
“Genius is independent of situation.”
“Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.”
“You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.”
“Oh Satan you re a wily one.”
“With good parody, you have to be smarter that the people you’re parodying.”
“The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)”
“A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don t love him or like him any more.”
“Have faith that your child s brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects. Be patient. Just as there are ugly ducklings that turn into beautiful swans, there are rebellious kids and slow learners that turn into serious innovators and hardcore intellectuals.”
“You should totally get implants, she said admiringly in the mirror. I shake my head. I don t yet know what I m going to do with my life, Diane. But I m hoping being shaped like a barbell could only be a hindrance.”
“The powers of a man s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.”
“I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place”