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…I noticed you don’t have any self-defense training…†“…I can handle myself just fine.†She stared at me for a long, uncomfortable moment. Finally, “In the very short time I’ve known you, you have been chased, shot, robbed, stabbed, drugged, and attacked by magic.†“I’m still breathing, aren’t I?
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The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.
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But I killed a man just like my mother did. David says it’s okay because I didn’t mean to, and because he was about to kill that little kid. But I’m pretty sure my mom didn’t mean to kill my dad, either, so what difference does that make, meaning or not meaning to do something? Accident or on purpose, the result is the same, and that’s one fewer life than there should be in the world.
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I distinctly remember a conversation with my band in the van where I was having a complete meltdown. It was 1984, I think, and I was huddled in the back corner of our van and saying, "I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this." I didn't want to play any more shows. I just wanted to stop.
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To be the world's best, you have to beat the world's best.
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Who never found what good from science grew, Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.
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A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.
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There's something about the Houdini act that is not always made clear - about the escape act in general.
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Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.
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Emotion and thinking are not distinct substances.
