I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

Like if you start something, you finish it — you don't stop until you get it right. If you don't get it right, you start over again... and you keep on going as long as you have to. That's the way it is, that's what you do. It's perfectly normal.

You understand, no matter what happens, you never, ever give up.

Well, they [kids] can be tenacious when they want something.

Oh, Andy loved geology. I imagine it appealed to his meticulous nature. An Ice Age here, a million years of mountain-building there. Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes, really. Pressure and time.