I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange juice salesman named Jefferson Jefferson. When he became rich and powerful, he went to court, made "Jefferson" his middle name, and then changed his first name to "Dr." Capital D. Lowercase r. Period.

I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.

The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.

You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

We're not going to break anything. Don't think of it as breaking in to SeaWorld. Think of it as visiting SeaWorld in the middle of the night for free.