He might not be here, but the day he misses an opportunity to party is the day Jocelyn Wildenstein is considered the paragon of beauty.

The ocean fascinates me too. How it connects everything and everyone, but at the same time it divides us. It’s a mystery, full of life and possibilities. It’s just…phenomenal.

The void inside me starts to fill, but my heart has holes, and whatever it holds will run out, leaving me empty once again.

It’s all about that cosy, homey feeling, the one you leave behind when you travel across the world.

Ever since her diagnosis, she’s been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.

Have you ever loved someone so much that even when they chip pieces away from you, you still try to give them what’s left? I know I have… I know I do.

I can hear the tick tick tick in my head: A tripwire ready to explode in fury. And then, in my mind, I start to count down from ten…any moment now.

I guess we’re all guilty at some point of failing to appreciate the small things, because when we use a broad brush to paint our exemplary lives, we splatter ourselves with ignorance.

Many nights I watch the sun set. Many nights I watch the moon. They fascinate me. They’re the only things I get to share with everyone: the stars, the moon, the universe.

It’s like I’m on a roller-coaster ride, but I’m not allowed to get off. I’m strapped to the seat, and within eyesight the unfinished twirl of the track swirls into the air.

Since her diagnoses she has been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.

Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.

As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.

A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

Social interactions can be enormously challenging for people on the spectrum. That's part of the reason that unemployment among autistic adults hovers near 80 percent.

There is always backlash. Everything gets backlash.

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.