Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.

I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning.

It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.

Well, first you have to be very, very funny. I have realized that it is essential for a boy to be funny. Otherwise, what is the point in a boy?

Her skin is pale as watermelon sucked free of its juices.

You're making me nervous by being so weird. But your weirdness is what I like about you.

What does it mean?" Emily said, in a low, panicked voice: "What does it mean if a rainbow comes before rain?

You do know the answers to most of your problems. Somewhere deep inside, you know.

I hope you feel better today. Please ring me at work if you are dead.

My father, I never knew, except for this one time when he threw a ball and told me to go fetch it. "Dad," I said. "Am I a dog?" "Lydia," he said. "I apologize.

I am a student of love.

Only by creating out of love will one achieve true greatness.

When a man is small he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

It's more about capturing an idea than about capturing a moment.

I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

In a way, my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is safer.

They've come to overthrow the court, sir!

What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn't that enough to make us happy?