To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.

Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

It's always coldest before the warm.

there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.

Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.