Anyone who thinks he's too small to make a difference has never been bit by a mosquito

Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.

New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are

I hadn’t been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyway. It didn’t really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related, if the fire that had burned me that day while I cooked hot dogs was somehow connected o the fire I had flushed down the toilet and the fire burning at the hotel. I didn't have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.