In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person's yard.

I think it would be frustrating to be a match maker. "What do you do?" "I'm a match maker" "Aw, that's really romantic" "No, umm... I actually... never mind"

People only mention it's a free country if they're doing something shitty.

It turns out dentists don't like it very much when you show up for a cleaning in full vampire gear.

I think if I pick the right thing to spend my time doing, then time moves differently, because I really can get fully immersed in things and feel very alive and challenged, but in a good way. I feel a sense of progress.

If only loud people were even half as interesting as they think they are.

There's an old Russian saying that goes some way or another. I don't know it. I don't speak Russian. But sometimes I think about it and wonder if it's relevant to what I'm going through at the time. Probably not. I mean what do Russian know about hunger, anyway?