Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.

When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy...

Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments...

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

We're actors — we're the opposite of people!

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.

There was no Lo to behold.

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.

The cross is proof of both the immense love of God and the profound wickedness of sin.

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum...

Since childhood, I’d believed it was important to speak out against bullies while also not stooping to their level. And to be clear, we were now up against a bully, a man who among other things demean...

Percy says be talked to a Nereid in Charleston Harbor!Good for him! Leo yelled back. The Nereid said we should seek help from Chiron’s brothers.What does that mean? The Party Ponies? Leo had never met...

Now play , make-believe dead girl

Maybe you should make me a list of people I can kill and ways in which they’re allowed to die, he said. You are not funny. I’m very funny. Just ask Peaches.