The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.

A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do the play justice, but in secret you want future critics to say you played the character better.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

There is nothing special in the world. nothing magic. just physics.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting you.

There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.