“I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.”

“Life isn't binary — and neither is politics. If you are adrift in the ocean, your enemy isn’t just sharks; it’s thirst, hunger, drowning, and despair itself. If you face your predicament assuming the only thing you have to worry about is being eaten by a shark, you might fend off the sharks, but you will also probably die. Indeed, by ignoring other threats, you’d probably make yourself more vulnerable to a shark attack.”

“Like most sharks, Margaret liked to think of herself as a victim of the cruel sea.”

“Never, ever retract. The smell of weakness is like blood to sharks.”

“There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning.”

“I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.”

“That life is chemistry is true but boring, like saying that football is physics.”

“To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?”

“No harder than walking a tightrope over a pit. A deep pit. Filled with sharks. Radioactive sharks.”

“It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.”