And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?

Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!

And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.

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?