I wished that I...had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless.

You can't get rid of a part that makes you you and be happy.

Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?

I suppose you can never tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside.

You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.

This is the final book about Brian

A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

It really took me a long time to become comfortable as a performer. I think I'm finally starting to enjoy playing live.

I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.

in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.

You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.

I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as is apt to come between people of strong feelings.