Moriah-Taylor

“You're supposed to be a spirit of intellect. I don't understand why you're obsessed with sex."
Bob's voice got defensive. "It's an academic interest, Harry."
"Oh yeah? Well maybe I don't think it's fair to let your academia go peeping in other people's houses."
"Wait a minute. My academia doesn't just peep -"
I held up a hand. "Save it. I don't want to hear it."
He grunted. "You're trivializing what getting out for a bit means to me, Harry. You're insulting my masculinity."
"Bob," I said, "you're a skull . You don't have any masculinity to insult."
"Oh yeah?" Bob challenged me. "Pot kettle black, Harry! Have you gotten a date yet? Huh? Most men have something better to do in the middle of the night than play with their chemistry sets.”
― Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“There are enough closed doors and glass ceilings in the world. My comfort zone shouldn’t be one of them.”
― Joya Goffney, Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry

“Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.”
― Sergio De La Pava, A Naked Singularity

“What I learned on my own I still remember”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms