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.

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

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.

Sometimes an artist's first invention is herself.

Life was never easy, but I always made it as easy as it can be.

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?

Good is done by degrees.

I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.

Many of us will not survive our tests in mortality without help from others. And just as true: in helping others we keep our own spirits alive.

One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me. When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late 70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.