Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys. Adolescence. The first date, the first kiss, the first chance to hold hands with someone special. Delayed, postponed, a decade's worth of longing--while everybody around you celebrates life, you pretend, suppress, inhibit, deprive yourself of you own joy--but finally ultimately, eventually, you find a place where you can have a taste of everything denied.

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

Study what you love, and youll never have to work a day in your life. Itll be one great adventure.

I think I exist, therefore I exist. I think.

It's almost always dangerous to be right too soon.

Contentment is the continuing act of accepting the process of your own life.

Doesn't anybody ever want to talk about anything else besides 'Star Trek?' There were 79 episodes of the series; there were 55 different writers. I was only one of them.