I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.