"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea."

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."

"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."

"Maybe that's all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place."

"Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better."

"Don鈥檛 blog what you don鈥檛 own."

"I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light."

"I gotta be me."

"Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore."