I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?