It's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

...slow and drunk is no match for fast and scared shitless.

She moved to pinch me again but I blocked her hand. I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting.

I didn’t know what to call it, what was happening between us, but I liked it. It felt silly and fragile and good.

No one here is embarrassed of their gift.

Have they built cities on the moon?" another boy asked hopefully."We left some garbage and a flag there in the sixties, but thats about it.

Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace!

That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation.

..he had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later.

It seemed like my parents were always trying to get me to care about money, but I didn’t, really. Then again, it's easy to say you don't care about money when you have plenty of it.

They may love you', she whispered, 'but they'll never understand.

Ordinary people never win.

Promoting healthy lifestyles and encouraging fitness are so important for our children's development and reducing the nation's epidemic of childhood obesity.

People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am.

I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness.

I like definitive things.

When I stop at a stop sign, I don’t think about the distance I’ve crossed. I just wish I never had to stop.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.