and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.

That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.

sometimes there's nothing to say about death.