When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

You should never stick something that you are allergic to into your mouth, especially if that thing is cats.

It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.