A tongue in a bag. Teeth. A room drenched in blood.

...WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY...that counts?...that carries meaning?...that made the day worthwhile?...what will you do tomorrow?

And then ... perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story in a book. You know?

You are the stories you tell, whatever their basis in fact or experience. It’s who you are.

Stories are how we connect. Evolution isn’t seriously about thumbs but about how we use language – that’s what raises us above dumb animals, right? Language?

Telling stories to make himself into something that he isn’t. We all do it. We all tell stories to make ourselves look better.

At some point the body offers only disappointment.

Cats aren’t as friendly as they appear: fur, teeth, instinct, selfishness and cunning. Essentially they’re just big rats.

Not every Gym Rat will become MVP, but every MVP is a gym rat.

Gatekeepers will always try to stop you getting in. But as a true hero, you have to snatch victory from death's jaws.

The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

When you can't make it, just fake it

Have you ever been further away than yourself? Where?

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

My greatest fear: repetition.

Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.