The rub of the Choose Your Own Adventure stories is that if you don't make a few bad choices, the story will be terribly boring. If you do everything right and you're always good, the story will be very short.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add to the person you become.

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

The strange thing is that what makes a wonderful story for some could be quite boring for others. It’s quite rare to find a story that everyone loves. But I think the best stories are those where the underdog somehow finds a way to succeed, hopefully with friends helping along the way.

Well. Adolescence is all about making mistakes.

The uncomfortable moments in a person's life make great stories down the road.

I have been an asshole, but an interesting one. I have made horrendous mistakes and made wrong decisions.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

I absolutely have made mistakes, and some of them are very grave. I think people are owed that story and should make a decision based on the complete story.

Here’s to dodgy adventures with disreputable relatives!

So pluck up your courage and take that risk! Add another story to the book of your life. Even if it doesn’t go the way you planned or wanted, you’ll still learn from it.

The turbulent lives of their entrepreneurial ancestors led to grief and angst and adventures, and as Sirhan is fond of observing, an adventure is something horrible that happens to someone else.

It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.