The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.