Something I would always remember. When you forget how bad it hurts, you feel so free.

The story you choose to tell isn't always the story you believe.

Sometimes a perfect memory can be ruined if put to words.

There's something ugly about a pretty boy who knows he's pretty and assumes everyone else know it too.

Most people, in the end, really are all on their own.

We were alive. I remember it that way. We were still alive, and we couldn't see how close we were to the end.

Our private tastes in books showed a hint of our secret selves.

Maybe, long ago, we used to be good. Maybe all little girls are good in the beginning.

The point is, every book we had could save us in a different way -- only, we had to open it. We had to drop our eyes to the page and drink in the words that were there.

I knew that just because people on the outside were free and clean, it didn’t mean they were the good ones.

Some of us had been running all our lives. We ran because we could and because we could not. We ran for our lives. We still thought they were worth running for.

God remains the same—faithful, loving and powerful—through changes big and small.

Not everyone was privileged to see another sunrise like you did, so before you start complaining remember that the breath of life isn't for sale.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.

Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

The worst of law is, that one suit breedes twenty. [The worst of law is that one suit breeds twenty.]

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.