I was sick of wanting money. I was sick of being without a goal.

What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?

Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.

believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.