How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?
The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.
Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.
Not writing at all leads to nothing.
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
If I could be useful to another human being, even for a day, that would be a great thing. It would be greater than all the big thoughts I could have at the university.
We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
I bet on everything. Everything. It's just like, 'I bet you I can spin my chair longer. ' Everything, I say 'I bet you. ' I love to win.