Quotes from Chandler Burr

Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they have turned out to be, almost all of them, extremely useful.

All molecules pulse with vibrations. They shimmer and wiggle and sing with the vibrations of the electron strings that hold them together, which means molecules are, oddly enough, a sort of musical instrument.

They exit one by one, or sometimes two by two. You scatter pieces of them on the snow in the woods and then run away as fast as you can, and then you turn and run back towards them, once they're beyond your reach.

Howard adores Sam's looks. He loves the strong cut of jaw made satin with thickening peach fuzz, loses himself in the green eyes. Howard stares at them like a lover, but always obliquely. (Sometimes we watch our son from a distance. "I wonder what he's thinking," Howard will say.)

I find that physics is like oysters—it's best first thing in the morning—so I always have these physics books in the loo.

I know someone who believes that Hugo Boss scents constitute proof that God does not exist.

Literature is a power, like a foreign language you possess.

A snob, incidentally, I tell them, is interested in a person because they are of high class. An elitist is interested in a person because they are interesting. That's the difference.

A purchase is but a purchase, now that you have money enough and to spare. Formerly it used to be a triumph.

Literature, well done, illustrates the reality of human nature.

It makes everyone nervous, smelling," he says re the vial, "because smell is such a strong sense.