"People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick."

"I’m searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known."

"Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient."

"Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance."