Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.

Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.

A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.

The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you

I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.

A real friend sees past the trouble and into your heart

There are all kinds of ways to be in the world. And no matter what has happened to us, or what we have been told, or what we have believed, we get to choose our way.

What did the Romans say? “De gustibus non est disputandum”: It is worthless to discuss personal taste. It is called 'personal' for a reason.

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not, Tap on it and it's hollow. Look under the shells: it's not there.

The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.

My aunts lived on liquor and seldom felt like eating much. I don't know what's wrong about a kid stealing when he's hungry.

Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Every person I've met has influenced my songs.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.

To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.