Rivka Galchen:

Every Tuesday night I go and see whatever is playing at the movie theater nearby. I'm not choosy. I'm happy to see whatever everyone else is going to see. That way I stay vaguely in touch without having to talk to people, which is great, because even though I very much like people in general, I find most people, in specific, kind of difficult. I prefer the taciturn company of my things. I love my things. I have a great capacity for love, I think.

Tim Kreider's married friend:

It's not as if being married means you're any less alone.

Bumblebee Labs:

People with a passion for everything are not interested in things themselves, they're interested in interest. To them, the actual objects of study are incidental; what fascinates them are the more abstract layers in which everything is interconnected.

When a person who is passionate about one thing meets a person who is passionate about everything, they just assume that this person is passionate about many "one things". What they fail to realize is that the passion is not thing-centric.

Notorious BIG:

The key to staying on top of things is to treat everything like it's your first project. Like it's your first day like back when you was an intern. Like that's how you try to treat things like, just stay hungry.

Lauren Clark:

It's good to have a plan, but if something extraordinary comes your way, you should go for it.

Staff Sgt. David Bellavia:

While on our second patrol in Iraq, a civilian candy truck tried to merge with a column of our armored vehicles, only to get run over and squashed. The occupants were smashed beyond recognition. Our first sight of death was a man and his wife both ripped open and dismembered, their intestines strewn across shattered boxes of candy bars. The entire platoon hadn't eaten for twenty-four hours. We stopped, and as we stood guard around the wreckage, we grew increasingly hungry. Finally, I stole a few nibbles from one of the cleaner candy bars. Others wiped away the gore and fuel from the wrappers and joined me.

Joel Stein:

There is so much you can't know about your spouse when you get married, like that one day she will want to eat her placenta.

Lady Bird Johnson:

Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights -- that immaculate woman exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood.