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We`d been on a few of the same group expeditions. I`d flirted with him because the cameras loved it, and he`d flirted back with exactly the same level of interest -- the sort of thing that turned off like a switch had been flipped as soon as the cameras stopped rolling.

"I don`t want to be the news, ever. I want to live a long, happy, peaceful life, figure out how to oil paint so that it doesn`t look like dog poop on canvas, and maybe see China one day. Becoming the news gets you dead." "Or it gets you famous," said Mat.

Like all good Irwins, I`ll take the path of least resistance whenever possible, if only because the path of least resistance is often where the action is.

History has always slept on a bed of bones. Do not idealize the monsters who put them there.

The disadvantage of being independent is the way you`re never going to have a safety net. All you can do is fly until you fall -- and falling is inevitable. Everybody falls, if you give them enough time.

"All sorted," I replied, holding our parking ticket up for him to see. I liked that it was still paper, a prehistoric artifact in a world of apps and plastic and everything digital. I had a collection of folded paper animals made from parking tickets gathered in garages from Galway to San Francisco. It was like a souvenir that didn`t cost me anything -- well, didn`t me anything more, anyway -- and that was a miracle all on its own.

The only right way to mourn someone is to remember them. The rest is just trappings.

I pulled out my license and held it out for both them and the nearest cameras to see. The thumbnail photo of me had been taken right after a bad haircut and a worse bar fight, which was why I kept it: Given my line of work, if someone was ever trying to identify my body it was a pretty sure thing that I`d be covered in bruises and rocking some seriously hideous hair.