Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.

So much for being a good friend was knowing when to keep your mouth shut.

Maybe that was the answer to good parenting—pretending the first child was the second.

She had the wild look of someone who hadn’t slept in twenty-four hours, with purplish semicircles underneath both her eyes. Being eighteen was like being made out of rubber and cocaine.

There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self of so many years ago, and to make the same decision.

With a roof over his head he had ceased to work, living off his [war] pension and his wits, both hopelessly inadequate.

Follow your dreams even when they're out of reach~

There is no 'secret' to success.There is a BEHAVIOR to success.Decide what you want and act accordingly.Dream. Plan. Execute.

Objects moving in a circle are under the influence of changing force.

Once I have a vision of something I want to accomplish, I tend to slog doggedly toward my goal until I achieve it; this is a skill from my youth.

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

The death of our close friends and relatives proves that how close the death is to us!

I bought a gun and chose drugs instead.

People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.