Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.
Why did someone fall in love with you because you were one thing, and then want you to be something else?
Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.
Boys are unpredictable. This maybe not be news, but I'm starting to think it's one of the best things about them.
These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important.
One way or another the thing had to die. Perpetual springtime is not allowed. You were not cutting the wood of life according to the grain.
They are easy enough to recognize. They are the ones who say things like 'You love me, you just don't know it yet.
That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.
People say love isn’t supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they’re gone.
Jenifer always taught me that starting a job was one thing―—and admirable―—but that following through and completing―—well, that’s where the bravery is.
Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.
I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.
One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.
If there's one thing Robert had learned in three weeks at Lovecraft Middle School, it's that nothing was impossible.
Do not fight with your brother. There are things that God expects us to fight for, true. But string is not one of them. Do you understand?
Everything in life has a place, and when one thing moves, it must go somewhere else.
I would say that I was without faith, but no one is truly faithless; they just have faith in the wrong things: fear and defeat.
You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.
