"The way things are going nowadays, you'll be considered a bloody treasure if you don't turn out to be a child molester or a public drunk."
Friday, May 10, p. 5

"Atterley was talking about matters close to my life and even closer to my work—and I didn't like what I heard. This wasn't because it wasn't true but for exactly the opposite reason: because it was true and I'd missed it. He was making acute observations about phenomena I'd witnessed a thousand times and never thought to notice."
Thursday, May 16, p. 18

"When he arrived, the sage commended Monkey for insisting on a wisdom beyond what others would accept and made a magical revelation so powerful that Monkey received Illumination on the spot... Why did the sage have two sets of teachings? I'd say it was because he wouldn't be much of a sage if he didn't. The...