“I think multiple things can be true at the same time. Someone can be m...” — Julio Torres Quote

“I think multiple things can be true at the same time. Someone can be menacing and villainous and awful, but also we can feel for them.”

“I'm inept at knowing the lives of the people behind the things I love.”

“I really loved 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien.' That was very informative to me. I love that it was in conversation with his more mainstream peers and subverted it. It felt funny for the sake of funny and very stupid and ridiculous and unburdened.”

“You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.”

“There's actually an awful lot of mathematics that goes into designing a railway, keeping it running, making sure everything runs optimally. Every time you need something to be optimal there's going to be some mathematics at play.”

“So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession.'”