Rain with no shoes is just as much fun as rain with big rubber galoshes.

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.

I gather the last remnants of the evening’s breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow The rest is all but leather and prunello.

Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.

Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

I could be a dray man delivering the beer, maybe. If they could wangle some cockney in, that would be great.

I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.