And winning, regardless of the lameness of the competition, still means I get cookies. — here

…there is no real curve to life – a beginning, a middle, and an end, a resolution of a sort. It is all middle. If one is at all alert, it is just as mysterious as you near the end as it is from the beginning. — there

When faced with danger the fashionable poses fall away and character is revealed, but also decisions can be irrational. — here

What ten-year-old boy with a shiny new Shelby bike wants to hear that message? Life was fine. Life was easy. And I was the luckiest boy in the world. — there