“People can attach themselves to something–an idea, another person, a desire–with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will–it’s supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession–they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight.” -”

“Some of the simplest of things can teach us the most profound lessons in life.”

“Research is an endless loop of failures interspersed with occasional profound discoveries.”

“People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.”

“If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.”