After age twenty-five, you're not a victim anymore — you're a volunteer.

Never let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash.

Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.

Did they want what I wanted?Did they want to understand, to unlock it? To decode it? To glean, to touch, to learn, to get something, to proceed, to get somewhere, to graduate, to work, to thrive; to someday, sometime, finally earn the luxury, the permission to … stop, to stop all of this, to relax, and forget?