Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
All the world's a cage.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"