"To me YES, AND means don't be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you're adding something to the discussion. Your initiations are worthwhile."

"God is in the details."

"I'm from Iowa, I only work in space."

"When I say beautiful things, I'm not necessarily living them; when I live them, the beautiful thing is that words aren't necessary."

"Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism."

"Although we were sent into a failing world, we were not sent to fail."

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

"Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."

"Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him."

"PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation."

"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."

"Though one should be prepared to vomit rather frequently and disport with pink elephants and assorted grotesqueries while trying often unsuccessfully to make one's way to the toilet."