Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

I am your number one fan.

They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.

you will not falter, because you will have the Everlasting Arm of the Lord God of Hosts to lean on. Yes. With God’s help you will stand.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

I choose to believe in God, but I have serious doubts.