Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
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.
I'd learned my lesson.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.