Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.
If you don’t have faith in yourself, then nobody else will have faith in you.
Failure was not an option. It just wasn't in my vocabulary.
I like to travel business or first class. I wouldn't go out of my way to pay through the nose if the particular airline had a perfectly adequate economy class - but I do like to be comfortable when traveling.
That is the charm of the map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible.
I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.
Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.
When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.