Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.