There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.

Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

Did you find yourself?" "What?" said my sister. "Did you find yourself?" "She found me," I said.

You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?" "I can tell." "Then you can't say you've read the whole play." "I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." "Who knows?" she said. "Maybe you can't.

There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.

...and she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty at all. "Holling," she said. "I was so afraid I wouldn't fine you." "I was standing right here, Heather." I said. "I'll always be standing right here.

Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.