Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

-You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. -What mood is that? -Last-minute panic.

What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction.

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?