I never knew that ["Hank Zipzer"] would happen in my life. It is one of the greatest things. It is like a gift from God.
[Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain.
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
I believe that Jesus was both priest and poet. Imagine those powerful parables! My experience as a priest tells me it's not possible to reach the hearts of the congregants without a bit of poetry and storytelling.
I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to…my own life.
Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.