"One shouldn't learn more than what one absolutely needs against life."

"You didn't lose a child to autism. You lost a child because the child you waited for never came into existence. That isn't the fault of the autistic child who does exist, and it shouldn't be our burde…"

"Now it is one great object of this work, to shew the importance and advantage of ascertaining the relative weights of the ultimate particles, both of simple and compound bodies, the number of simple e…"

"he octopus did not die. Even after he disappeared, he still was eternally alive there. In the antiquated, empty, forgotten water tank of the aquarium. Eternally—most likely through many centuries—an a…"

"And I came .. .It was just after the war and I thought it was a little early to get over there . So I spent the winter under the Brooklyn Bridge, on the Brooklyn side, living with Barney Rosset, and I…"