I guess that’s the thing about a hero’s journey. You might not start out a hero, and you might not even come back that way. But you change, which is the same as everything changing. The journey changes you, whether or not you know it, and whether or not you want it to.

I loved her, atom by atom, one burning cell at a time.

I don't know what happened. One minute, I was dreamin' about a fat piece of George Clooney and a hot date with some brown sugar pound cake, and the next thing I knew, the house was coming down on us.

A little-known fact about me: I read all the time.

I wouldn't know where to start." "He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?" "Harry Emerson Fosdick.

I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were

Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.