First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Good to evil seems evil

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

But no man's a hero to himself.

Beware the autumn people

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Swarming its own shadows, the dust filtered over the tents.

CONJUGATE THIS:

I’ve never known anyone who was saved who did not first save herself.

Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

I think any reasonable person knows which reporters to eliminate.

You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.

Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.

Maintaining checks and balances on the power of the Judiciary Branch and the other two branches is vital to keep the form of government set up by our Founding Fathers.