Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle...

Youth does not require reasons for living, i...

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep a...

I was 3 and a half, and there was an open call for a Coca-Cola commercial. We were living around Dallas, and my mom took me. I think they were calling for 16-year-olds th...

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth get...

The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you're headed for the unemployment lines. Your...

I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really relat...

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importanc...

What I felt at that time - we're talking about '61 - was that I couldn't remember seeing a...

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before...

Living alone makes it harder to find...

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are mor...