Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in Lynn Valley,"and suddenly somebody comes up to you saying, 'Hi, I'd like you to meet Kevin. Kevin is eighteen and will be making all of your career decisions for you.' I'd be flipped out. Wouldn't you? But that's what life is all about - some eighteen-year-old kid making your big decisions for you that stick for a lifetime." He shuddered.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.

Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.