there is something intriguing about knowing how things are going to turn out, but being constantly surprised about how they'll get there.

I find the title How to Be Good. Curious, I open it up. I'm disappointed to find it's fiction.

I tell myself I’m fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my own devices, I have no devices.

I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It’s the living. Those of us left behind.

All I have besides food is grief.

If you don’t know how to deal with emotion, other people’s feelings can hit you like a drug.

I preferred to think of myself as a cat. If I think of my behavior as cat behavior instead of people behavior, it pretty much always makes sense.

...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.

Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.

A Test match is like a painting. A one day match is like a Rolf Harris painting.

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)

Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge

I have a lot of trouble getting turned on by girls who are turned on by celebrity.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.

The U.S. and Iraq will work together next year to shift Iraqi resources from unproductive subsidies to productive uses that enable Iraqis to earn livelihoods.