Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.