Director of Ensuring the Future

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

There’s less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank, ” Bailey said. “They’ll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark’s.

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to.

Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later.

I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.

This democracy thing, or Demoxie, whatever it is, good god. Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.

Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution.

For entertainment, a party bears no one in as much as those who are not there. ­

Learning the secrets and skill of great No.2s remains the surest path to becoming No. 1.

I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.

There's so much that can be done on the guitar. And that's what is so good about the guitar - everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it's all about.

Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

Disability need not be an obstacle to success.