If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

Life is an X-rated soap opera.

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?

He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.