Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.