"For a guy with a four-digit I.Q., I must have missed something. And I hadn't missed much."

"In the end, how much worse could it get? [takes NZT-48 for the first time]"

"I was blind, but now I see."

"It was all bubbling up in my frontal lobes, mixing itself together into a sparkling cocktail of useful information."

"I wasn't high, I wasn't wired; just clear. I knew what I needed to do and how to do it."

"A tablet a day and what I could do with my day was limitless."

"I suddenly knew everything. About everything."

"My brain was just pouring this stuff out. Everything I had ever read, heard, seen was now organized and available."

"All my fear, all my shyness, gone. But mere lounging wasn't enough. Only problem? If I wasn't moving forward, I felt …"

"Obviously, I miscalculated a few things. Why is it that the moment your life exceeds your wildest dreams, a knife app…"