"You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits."
"If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am."
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Source: oulomb and the Evolution of Physics and Engineering in Eighteenth-century France by C. Stewart Gillmor, Princeton University Press, (pp. 255-261), 1971.
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