“Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.”

“Every year right after the Christmas holidays, our IQ scores were posted on the bulletin board at the Academy. We, the juniors and seniors, had taken our tests several weeks ago, and for the last few days we were all nervous wrecks waiting to see our results. Of course, we were all told that what was really crucial for us to get into the college of our choice was the grade point average of our last two years of high school, plus our SAT scores. But we knew that our IQ score could also make a big difference because our IQ, we’d been told, was what gave us a true measure of our intelligence. So if we hadn’t worked real hard in school or hadn’t tested well in our college entrance exams, then our IQ could make all the difference.”

“Adam and Eve were still ignorant and new residents of Heaven, yet the tree was placed there to test their IQ level.”

“Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.”

“Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life… The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.”

“No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.”

“You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an SAT test to get into college. So why don’t you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, that’s the first rule I will institute.”

“Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty… It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.”

“For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.”

“IQ is a genetic given that cannot be changed by life experience, and that our destiny in life is largely fixed by these aptitudes.”