Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.

I'm kind of a distractible guy.