Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

I felt a momentary urge to leap into the sea and swim free of the present.

I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back.

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.

Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.