I beat Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in one day.
All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.
It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.
Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.
I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like to be; I still direct more energy toward controlling and minimizing appetites than toward indulging them.
Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, it would appear in dairy cases with warning labels: this substance is self-punitive; ingest with caution.
To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.
Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience. . . it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.
Everyone longs for love's tense joys and red delights.
The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed