“Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.”

“It is my sincere desire that my research and hard work will help create a world where we all learn to walk this Earth, safe, enlightened and free from the perils of cruelty, ignorance, and all the other dark and sinister forces, which make assholes possible.”

“Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet decides these things, here in the modern age.”

“People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.”

“The self-addressed stamped envelope. The representation of everything that was wrong with the old publishing industry.”

“The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.”

“The meaning of life is basically to be the kind of person you would want to be around.”

“If you have ever successfully resisted getting angry, then you know what it is like to resist a demon.”

“Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.”

“Whereas, in the west, individuality and drive are considered positive qualities, they are not seen the same way, in Japan. In that country, if you are too much of a rugged individualist, it might actually indicate that you are a weak, unreliable character and that you are selfish, in a childish, willful kind of way.”

“Perhaps, Katrine, in a library just like this one, you will find that all the things you thought were impossible and all the things that everyone, throughout history, have thought were impossible are not really impossible at all... they never were impossible.”