Jason said, "Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe." What does the 'T' stand for?" 'The.

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays—whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having—that interlude—the scrambly madness—all that time I had before?

As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.