"Ralph Nimmo carecía de título universitario y se enorgullecía de ello. -Un título [...] es el primer paso de un recorrido calamitoso. Como no quieres desperdiciarlo, pasas al trabajo de graduado y a la investigación doctoral. Terminas por ser un absoluto ignorante de todo, excepto en tu estrechísima especialidad."
"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."
"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."
"If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true."
"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."