You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

To fly, we must have resistance.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.