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In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.

I don't like to work. I am not helpless without work. Work is an obsession for me.

We are obsessive NPR listeners.

Pain was a boring conversationalist who never stopped, just found new topics.

It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.

He could talk through twenty cigarettes on any topic that you brought up. And he never sat up when he could lie down; and never stood when he could sit.

That's the problem with Peter, said Theresa. Only the one? said Peter.

six emotions make up the first group: love, desire and joy in response to whatever my senses recognize

I'm goin to tell you right now, cousin. This is a heathenish bunch.

In the words of Ice-T, "Do I look like a motherfuckin' role model?

YA doesn't get librarians fired!

Any time I'm at work at 2:00 a.m., it's either PEBKAC or Microsloth.

What is common becomes sense, but what is sensible doesn't always become common.

alchemy of friendship, to mutually transform the humiliation of life into private jokes?

confusion is the main cause of worry

That started an exchange about the early history

shared a bond: Lewin had written a Princeton thesis

Numbers in roman type refer to illustrations in the Photos section; numbers in italics refer to book pages.

from Morgan Stanley, which was a pretty uptight firm in those days," recalled

In addition to such topics of debate, Franklin laid out a guide for the type of conversational contributions each member could usefully make. There were twenty-four in all, and because their practicality is so revealing of Franklin's purposeful approach, they are worth excerpting at length:

language. His idea of an investigation had more to do with conquest than it did with intelligence.

of Ullswater that he acquired a more complete mastery