Identity Persistence Quotes

I really don't think there's such a thing as an ex-policeman.

It's a strange one - I've been away for 20 years now; I've been away longer than I lived in Canada, but for some reason I remain wholly Canadian.

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

A nerd will be a nerd all his life.

Deep in my heart it still feels like I'm a journalist even though I haven't worked for a paper and carried a press pass for 14 years.

As kids, we say stupid things, and because there's not a record of it, nobody is going to give you a hard time at 30 years old about something you said or did when you were 8 years old. Online, you have all these social networks that are moving to a state of persistent identity, and in turn, we're sacrificing the ability to be youthful.

Everybody is who he was in high school.

Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.

You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.

I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.

Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.

You might think you made a new world or a new self, but your old self is always gonna be there, just below the surface, and if something happens, it'll stick its head out and say 'Hi.' You don't seem to realize that. You were made somewhere else.