It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.

Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.

A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night

Some poeple just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

Oh great. Yoda captured us.

Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.)

They call me, The Sharkalator

At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.

I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it.

Youth is a time of tremendous energy. You should look at the possibilities, not the problems.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.

In any field, it's a plus if you view criticism as potentially helpful advice rather than as a personal attack.

I'm a very physical person. I hug people, more so than shake hands.

A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.

For most Americans, progress means accepting what is new because it is new, and discarding what is old because it is old.

Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.

Stop aspiring. Start doing.