God has given us everything that we need to succeed in life. Now it is time for us to consistently give ourselves enough reasons why success is inevitably ours.

Then Brezhnev grabbed the wheel of power and captained the country with the exploratory heart of a municipal bus driver.

If only it felt like an academic exercise when she kissed him, instead of a soul-drowning tsunami of want and need.

I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

Mummy, I woke today and there was a Lincoln Log in me sock drawer! ... That's the story of Jesus.

I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

All peoples are fed up with the American government.

Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.

I'm like, If you do something dumb, I'll write about it. If you put something out there, to me it's like you're kind of asking for it.