You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

Ah, the things we would do if we could — especially in the secure knowledge that we can't.

I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

It helps if you don't see it as traffic but rather as thousands of individuals resolved to press on another day.