And now Jacques Laffitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Laffitte
Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
How plotless real life was!
But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.
. . . if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
For me, writing something down was the only road out. . . I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.
Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.
I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl. '
I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.