I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen too many lies go unquestioned, and too many questions go unasked. There is a time when even reasonable men must begin to take unreasonable actions. To do anything else is to be less than human.

Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal.

Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else.

Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress

There's only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

Every life has a watershed moment, an instant when you realize you're about to make a choice that will define everything else you ever do, and that if you choose wrong, there may not be that many things left to choose. Sometimes the wrong choice is the only one that lets you face the end with dignity, grace, and the awareness that you're doing the right thing. I'm not sure we can recognize those moments until they've passed us.