This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.

Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay

When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

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.

Man plans. God laughs.

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.