It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others.

The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.

Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -