Status Updates From The Dangerous Animals Club

the real romance of travel isn't travel at all, but the act of putting yourself in a position to be surprised. The key was surprise, not geography. As long as you keep that precious commodity, life becomes a romance.

The “yeah, but” is the way we have developed to diminish our own lives into footnotes. To demoralize, trivialize, and squander the greatest gift we have been given—the joy of watching the sun rise for another day, even if it is only to have the opportunity to fail.

The “yeah, but” is the way we have developed to diminish our own lives into footnotes. To demoralize, trivialize, and squander the greatest gift we have been given—the joy of watching the sun rise for another day, even if it is only to have the opportunity to fail.

The fall from your dream into reality is especially hard when you've seen that you can fly.

When you don't get auditions and don't get acting jobs, it is easy to hide behind the persona of someone with enormous talent that the blind, underachieving world has overlooked. But when you get the job, those excuses vanish. You are no longer a genius in waiting. Your name is on the program. You have to deliver. And there's nothing more frightening than being judged on your own work.

The importance of friendships cannot be underestimated. They are created the same way the Bible describes God's creation of man, with free will. And the exercise of free will is what defines you as a person.

Fairly or unfairly, many people are tried in life. The mistake people make is that they think the trial is a sign of failure. It’s not. It’s only a doorway that leads to who you really are.

The person who fashions his life after something he has seen runs the risk of worshipping form at the expense of content

When you date various people you tend to be defined by the things you say. But when you cross the line and start a relationship, you are defined by the things you do. And what you do is often determined by what you value. What you hold to be the center of your life.

The Fifth Rule of doing drugs: The sun will eventually rise. The party will eventually end.

Return to the world of consequences and regret is inevitable. And inevitability, after all, was the bottom line. For the person who doesn't believe in God, for the person who has no faith, the handiest substitute for the eternal is inevitable. And for that, the sun will do as well as any deity.