“For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.”

“You're waiting because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together but here we are in the weeds again, here we are in the bowels of the thing: your world doesn't make sense.”

“If something doesn't fit — MAKE IT!”

“First time you hear something, it sounds outlandish and broken and like it doesn't make sense. But once it's been in your head awhile it's as if the other thoughts in there wriggle out of the way to give it some room.”

“Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about.”

“You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.”

“Logic - was a tool in his intellectual armoury but it was not a cold, calculating logic. There was space in it for something beyond the algebraic piling of reason upon reason.”

“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”

“Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once!”

“There's something about a roof isn't there? It makes you feel like it doesn't matter what's going on below. All of those things that get in the way of your dreams - you're above them. Anything is possible.”