You can speak truth to power, . . . but when you speak truth to weakness, weakness gets mad and queasy. It accuses you of its own insecurity.""The Off Season: A Victorian Sequel

I embrace my experience and value my wisdom.

Friends are squad. Squad is family. Family is forever.

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.

With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.

It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.

Whatever we do, make sure we clean up baseball.

Better the anger of a friend than the kiss of an enemy.