Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do.

It ain't fair that we have all the rough breaks!

Things are rough all over.

They shouldn't hate each other . . . I don't hate the Socs any more . . . they shouldn't hate . . .

I wish I was a kid again, when I had all the answers.

Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

You know the rules. No jazz before a rumble.