Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once

Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.

The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.

Part of the human condition is that we all think that we are uniquely complex while everyone else is somewhat simpler to read. That is not true, of course. We all have our own dreams and hopes and wants and lust and heartaches. We all have our own brand of crazy

That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song