I can’t believe I thought this was going to be boring. This is great!

So you’re a reader, ” My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection.

Wait. Is a real, live adult person actually asking me details about the games I play? This is unheard of.

It seems like the best escape games come from Japan for some reason. It makes me proud.

At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.

I turn back to the Archers, who don’t look like the same species as us. Do they even sweat, these people?

Dad has shamelessly played the Mom card. Against which there is no defense.

Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks.

Worry about today, tomorrow will take care of itself.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

I'm always ready for the enemy to come over the hill. I'm packed and set to go. That comes from my time in the army. I used to travel in a tank, but now it's a tour bus going to safer places.

Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

I love Germany so much I'm glad there are two of them.

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.

I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.