A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.

But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.