For me, the hero’s journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero’s journey is the voyage from strength to weakness.

So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe.

I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission.

I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason.

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down.

Wait, wait. I don't get it.' 'That is because you only have eight functioning brain cells.