Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I'd done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.

So you just went in and told him to give you two Cokes and he gave them to you?" "No, I didn't just go in and tell him to give me two Cokes. I asked for a Coke for me and a Coke for the skinny thug sitting on the library steps.

Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.