Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

Yes,' he said sincerely. 'Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.

Only cowards torture women.

He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

See you tomorrow,” he said, instead. “All right.” Then, impulsively, I asked, “Do you have a place to sleep tonight?” “Sure,” he said with a smile, and started off as if he had somewhere to be. I could have bitten off my tongue because I pushed him into a lie. Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth. I don’t know why it works that way, but it does—at least in my experience.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.