"The past is but the beginning of a beginning."

"Religion is pickled God."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race."

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."

"Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid."

"Straight men need to be emasculated. I'm sorry. They all need to be slapped around. Women have been kept down for too long. Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once."

"What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses."

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

"Aerodynamically the bumble bee should not be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."

"I don't want people who want to dance. I want people who have to dance."