No American is prepared to attend his own funeral without the services of highly skilled cosmeticians. Part of the American dream, after all, is to live long and die young.

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Those who love the young best stay young longer.

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

If a people have no word for something, either it does not matter to them or it matters too much to talk about.

Whatever you crave for, leaves you more dissatisfied once experienced!

So you tied the dead to alive person and now...YOu have just prepared the alive to be the 5 victim!

I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.

Peter Gammons went on to Sports Illustrated and ESPN, and was on everyone's shortlist of best baseball writers ever.

Trying to hold onto any relationship as it was, keeps you from the joyous adventure of what it can become.

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.

12 of the best years of my life - It will never be forgotten.