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I wish I had money now. If only I’d saved my allowance growing up, instead of squandering it on balls, balloons, booze, and floozies.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

We fought, we drank coffee, and then we made up. Then I made up the part about us having made out, because I was trying to impress my ex girlfriend and grandma (two people, not one).

This Book is Not FOR SALE

My day starts like a regular guy’s. I wake up, drink raw eggs, run around Philadelphia, and punch raw slabs of meat. Wait, that’s not my story—that’s Rocky’s. I get us confused all the time.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

In 50 years, I’m going to tell my grandchildren, “Back when I was growing up we didn’t have teleportation devices. We actually had to walk to school. In the snow. And shoes hadn’t even been invented yet.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

You stare down your opponent, lights twinkle, but you don’t blink. This is all you and that’s all him, and it ain’t all that much. An instant later you wake up in a hospital. Your anus hurts. Long live sports.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

This was the beginning. The end is easily foreseen; for, given a young man of Dick's temperament, longing for companionship, and another young man of Charlie's make−up, with a legitimate business to bring the two together, and only a friendship of ...

That Printer of Udell's

...his eyes lit up and glowed red against the dark bulk of it. A moment they remained so ... then they soared up, phosphorescently opalescent, with a predominance of red, like two sinful dead planets escaping from Hell.

The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension

...for no matter whether the relationship was of short or long duration, no matter whether the partners were rich or poor, gay or straight, young or old, living together or married, giving up the relationship was hard for both people.

Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Relationships

I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution. I knew that if we failed it wold injure the whole race.

Up from Slavery

You don’t have to die and go to heaven. All you have to do to be in God’s presence is choose Him. All you have to do is believe.

Waking Up in Heaven: A True Story of Brokenness, Heaven, and Life Again

Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

Will the Real Me Please Stand Up?: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication

You stupid, conceited fool! You know nothing! You're like a child, blind to everything but its own empty stomach! Well, grow up, Carl, and join the real world. Until you do, for God's sake leave me be!

Web of Deceit

Life mash, Lucia has said, when Eva told her Christopher had gone to war. Eva had asked her what it meant, and Lucia explained it was a patois expression, meaning everything was messed up and broken. Mean life was cruel.

White Feathers

Children talk themselves out of their convictions as they grow up and become distracted by their huge selfish selves. All the literature is consistent on this point. Children begin to think they've imagined us.

What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy

I have no doubt that, had I actually been growing up in the 1930s or 1940s, I would have been grooving to turn-of-the-century beats.

What Would Barbra Do?: How Musicals Changed My Life

We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God.

Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

Most kids grow up leaving something out for Santa at Christmas time when he comes down the chimney. I used to make presents for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

For those that dare to stand up against those that want to knock you down." The dedication from Worst Case Scenario: Bug Out - Book 2.

Worst Case Scenario Book 2: Bug Out

I nodded again, but I knew I would not grow up to drive a bulldozer. It would be awful to be dirty all day like these men. I didn't say it, but at best I would keep one in the backyard, like a goat.

A Wolf at the Table

There is a heady sense of manhood that comes from advancing from apathy to commitment, from timidity to courage, from passivity to aggressiveness. There is an intoxication that comes from standing up to the police at last.

From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter