Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.
If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
We make our own fortune and call it destiny.
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
I wrote Freak the Mighty because Max, the mighty half of Freak the Mighty, insisted and he's bigger than I am.
I always get pissed that I can't make my voice sound like someone from the 50s who had a very girly, innocent voice, like Leslie Gore.
24. 9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8. 6, 7. 4 and 10. 5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract.
My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.