“For careers you say you went to be remembered for your artYour obsessions get you known throughout the school for being strangeMaking life-size models of the Velvet Underground in clay”

“If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.”

“Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own.”

“If you're male, and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And sometimes you find your father in your career.”

“Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.”

“Do you remember? Do you remember being solid? Do you remember life before the hole? Before you were empty and needed to be filled? There was a time when everything was enough. There was a time you didn't try to get out of your own skin. Remember?”