hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing.

It was almost enough to make me turn vegetarian, except for the pesky fact that I loved cheeseburgers.

I know, I'm an idiot!" Leo moaned. "A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot.

I had a fair idea how it felt to get spanked with a large flat surface, and my rump clenched in sympathy.

Success is not about how others feel about you, its about how you feel about yourself.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are 'famous, ' so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you'll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it.

The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like, there's more than 808s in the universe.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred.

....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

When you are feeling bad, do one thing a day to make your heart dance. It could be a simple thing like looking up at the sky.