“The authorities aren't always up to the job.”

“It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.”

“There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.”

“You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody. ”

“Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.”

“The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse”

“If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.”