I was spinning—from the kiss, the alcohol or the lack of air, I wasn’t sure, but I knew I needed to pull away if only just to breath.

Spider or gum? Spider or gum? I thought quickly trying to come up with a believable excuse when I blurted out, “I swallowed a spider!” What? I swallowed a spider? What the hell is wrong with me?!

I threw my hand over my mouth and blurted out the first best excuse I could come up with, “Morning breath!

We were walking that tightrope between friends and something more...

I could practically hear the unspoken ‘good girl’ accompanied by a pat and scratch behind my ears like I was his obedient pet.

My fingers itched to touch, my lips begged to taste and my body buzzed with a frenzied energy, but my mind screamed to move far away from him fast.

Worry only wears the body, soul and spirit.

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

I have the deepest respect for Eva Gabrielsson and all she has gone through, but I also know that I make maybe her sad, and I am sad about that, but I make so many other people happy.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . .

We're more popular than Jesus Christ now.

For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.

That's how we're going to stay innovative. We're going to continue to attract entrepreneurs who say, 'I found an idea, and I can go to Google and have a demo in a month and be launched in six.'

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.