Stephanie took another puff from her candy cigarette, reached into her purse, brought out the rest of the pack, and said, "Want one of these damned cigarettes?

As a very young person, I was ready and willing to explore and try new things, unhampered by the daily routines that adults so often feel obligated to adhere to.

It's a wonder Hell don't open up and swallow her as the highlight of the service.

You'll never avoid every mistake. All you can do is try to do your best and live with the consequences.

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. I think I would have more fun chopping thistles with a butter knife.

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

You have a light in your heart and that is your love, it can shine like a sun to enlighten the whole world.

Maybe I'll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.

The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.

Invent new drugs, that's what you should be doing... fight to get new weirder ones... and weirder establishments to do them in.

Everyone wears an invisible sign that reads "Notice me. Make me feel important."

They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.

You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.

I am wrapped in dismal thinking.