It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.

I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.

Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.

Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.

The standard business model for corporations is to lie, confuse and deny anything that may threaten their profitability.

My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.

When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.

There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating

Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.

You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.

I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn't really qualified to discuss real things out of America because I didn't grow up there.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

Most ads are ignored because every customer has a mental filter that evaluates and dismisses both of these languages of Ad-Speak with a single question: What are they not telling me?