For the first time in your conscious memory; for the first time in fact, since your were a baby; a single tear, full and warm, rolled down your right cheek and you fell into a very deep and entirely dreamless slumber.
I'm a big diver. I like to dive when I travel, and my last dive was in the Galapagos. I used to live in San Francisco and I would dive all the time in Monterey.
I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.
If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
Peter Llewelyn Davies: That scepter's made of wood. J.M. Barrie: Yes, well, we do dream on a budget here, don't we?
Michael Llewelyn Davies: [about J.M. Barrie] Can we have him for supper? Sylvia Llewelyn Davies: Have him to stay for supper, Michael. We're not cannibals.
Peter Llewelyn Davies: [as a preface to his play] This is just a bit of silliness, really. J.M. Barrie: I should hope so. Go on.
George Llewelyn Davies: [to J.M. Barrie] I'm sorry, is he bothering you, sir? My brother can be an extremely irritating sort of person.
Barry the Baptist: When you dance with the devil, you wait for the song to stop.
Barry the Baptist: Hello son, would you like a lolly? Little Chris: Piss off, you nonce!
Billy Beane: [Suggesting a player for first base] Scott Hatteberg. Scout Barry: Who? Billy Beane: Exactly. The guy sounds like an Oakland A already.
Father Barry: Some people think the Crucifixion only took place on Calvary. Well, they better wise up!
Father Barry: Boys, this is my church! And if you don't think Christ is down here on the waterfront you've got another guess coming!
Terry: If I spill, my life ain't worth a nickel. Father Barry: And how much is your soul worth if you don't?
It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.
Harmon Killebrew was a gem. I can never thank him enough for all I learned from him. He was a consummate professional who treated everyone from the brashest of rookies to the groundskeepers to the ushers in the stadium with the utmost of respect.
With science it's very important not to go down the wrong path, but the wrong path in science is a path you go down where everything you learn is already known. So you need to steer around the obvious.
