"It's really important for me to be honest right now. I just want to write about the truth." Josh, A Note to the Reader, page x

"Joining anything was not my usual thing- by a long shot... I don't know about you, but if 50 million people are doing something, I want to be doing something else- big time." Josh, Part 1, page 15

"It's very simple, really. I've only wanted one thing my whole life- to contribute, to help make the world a better place. It sounds amazingly corny, but pushing civilization forward has always been my highest priority. Not with more technology, not with more money, but with more ideas, more meaning. When we studied Darwin last year, his ideas burned off the page. All of us, evolving, moving forward, consciously or not. It's probably what was in the back of my mind when I moved those plastic numbers...