I have an experience with as many of my readers as possible that's really genuine. I love it when they write to me, and I'm able to send them things. I love meeting them in person, and even if it's only for a moment I love having that physical, touching interaction.

This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.