It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes...narrowed them horizontally, not vertically.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive.

People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems.

Newton's Third Law of Conversation, if it existed, would hold that every statement implies an equal and opposite statement. To say that I'd turned the offer down raised the possibility that I might not have done.