Potassium cyanide," says the talent wrangler as she leans over to pick up a paper napkin off the floor. "Found naturally in the cassava or manioc roots native to Africa, used to tint architectural blueprints in the form of the deep-blue pigment known as Prussian blue. Hence the shade 'cyan' blue.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

Find good in what the world says is evil.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

In truth, the degree of anyone's success depends on how often they can say the word yes and hear the word no.