Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself.

He was so far away now, or maybe he just looked distant because we were imaging different things for our future.

Tell me, is there someone in your life who's been sharing your life too closely? A friend or a loved one? Is there someone who's been taking up your time and not giving any of it back?

I did have a friend, ' I said.'And your friend trespassed upon you, ' the Wally replied.

There was no better way to live, or worse. It was all terrible, and you had to do it constantly,

I had seen the few things I cared about forget me seamlessly. I had seen the life I never really fit into heal up around my absence like a wound scabbed over.

There's a kind of pressure that your own life muscles onto you, to do something just like you would do, to behave just like yourself.

There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens.

When the chips are down, you are giventhe chance to find the strength you never knew you had and put it toward the greater good. Or go over to the dark side. You know, if that’s how you roll.

Outdated ideas inevitably lead to outdated behaviors.

The heart of science is measurement.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.

The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'