You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that too much.

It's bad for your brain not to unplug.

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

Maybe some people need to believe in a proper and omnipotent God to pray, but I don't.

So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a ten-yard head start. In the time it takes you to run that ten yards, the tortoise has moved one yard. And then in the time it takes you to make up that distance, the tortoise goes a bit farther, and so on forever. You are faster than the tortoise but you can never catch him; you can only decrease his lead.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

She's cute, I thought, but you don't need to like a girl who treats you like you're ten: You've already got a mom.