Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation." "An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.

I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

Smiling without good reason is demeaning.

Your trouble comes from years of wearing the wrong kind of shoes. - Jake Wexler

I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

The poor are crazy, the rich just eccentric. - James Shin Hoo

I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible.""Shakespeare, " Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

Grace sat down where the chair wasn't.

Life, too, is senseless unless you know who you are, what you want, and which way the wind blows.

I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.

I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.

My first gig was in Philadelphia and I played the drums for my older brothers. That same night, I also played drums for Martha and the Vandellas. Ah, the fond memories of being 14.

I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist.

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

My own philosophy is that one should share what wisdom he has, one should help others to help themselves and one should keep going despite heavy weather, for there is always a calm ahead.

Since I've retired, I eat less, weigh less, train less and care less.

The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.

Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.