“Am I about to feel really, really stupid?”

New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard.

The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell,

I find it’s too much for me to read endless critiques, even if we’re being well-defended, of exactly what we’re doing.

Lists are how I parse and manage the world.

we’re finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. I

There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show.

We didn’t set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don’t purport that what we do is real science but we’re demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest.

I’m actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

I’ve regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen.

I have some ideas on how to fix that.

Especially parts from ‘Star Wars’ – I can do this stuff all day long. It’s exactly how I made my living for 15 years.

I’m a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes.

The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.

We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

The sea’s only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong.

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

It’s strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.