If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players.

If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice.

We are going to have to do something about all this violence, or people are going to keep buying tickets.

Put the kids in with a few old pappy guys who still like to win and the combination is unbeatable.

She kept hoping that something would happen to rescue her from her own small-scale, predictable dreams.

The desire to learn is valuable, but the desire for an education is priceless.

No," Jace agreed. "We don't fly. We break and enter.

It is what it is. Either walk on, or accept.

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

There are no words, there's only the possibility of a moment even more incredible a little bit further down the road.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.

I think most serious and omnivorous readers are alike- intense in their dedication to the word, quiet-minded, but relieved and eagerly talkative when they meet other readers and kindred spirits.

When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?