“Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go...” — Randy Pausch Quote

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.

I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.

I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.

All I can do is keep my nose down and shoot the scene, shoot the scene, make it funny, make it funny, make it funny.

At nose tackle, you don't have to run that much.

Growing up, I wanted to play with the bigger kids, so having two brothers, you had to stick your nose in there and try your best; you get the worst of everything, though.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

There's no great shame in having your nose fixed.