Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.
Jerry SpinelliBecause life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.
Jerry SpinelliWhen bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heartโsometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.
Jerry SpinelliThe flash would prove that proton decay really happens. The flash would mean that the matter of the proton - the solid stuff - had turned into the energy of the flash (E-mc2). Totally. Nothing left behind. No ash. No smoke. No smell. Nada. One moment it's there, the next moment - pffft - gone. What would it mean? Only this: Nothing lasts. Nothing. Because everything that exists is made of protons.
Jerry Spinelli