The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".

I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys.

Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them

You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

I will never understand why people get so upset at things I don't even remember saying.

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

Confidence comes from thoughtful action, reflection, and experience. Confidence does not come from reaction.

Every day between now and his slaughter in six months, 534 [Pollan's steer] will convert 32 pounds of feed into four pounds of gain- new muscle, fat, and bone.

My theory is, if you force yourself to smile enough, then you start to feel it. Which comes in handy all the time.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can actually trick yourself into feeling better.

Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves.

The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its whole embodied form.

Birds are settling down for the night, singing lullabies to their young.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe.