Life hangs as nothing in the scale against dear Liberty!
I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.
The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.
My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.
My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.
So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.
When someone loves you, and when you make someone happy, you suddenly start to feel the most beautiful person in the world.
I can dribble with my right hand and I can dribble with my left hand. I'm amphibious.
A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.