He who plants a tree, plants a hope.
If you promise you will get better instead of dying, I promise I will, too.
I tucked him in with his stuffed-animal pet dog—cleverly named Dog-Dog, by the way.
Renee was beautiful, but she was my friend now. On the other hand, Annette was my friend, but now she was beautiful. makes about as much sense as anything ever does with girls
Note to self: It's hard to attain a state of no-mind when you're incredibly pumped up on tea and sugar and have to urinate every three and a half minutes.
And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.
Hi, Tad!' she said. 'Hi, Jeff! Hey, I'm not interrupting anything, am I?' 'Uh, no,' I said. 'We were just. . . I mean, Tad was. . . uh, nope. ' 'So what were you guys talking about?' 'Well,' I said, 'it's very complicated. We were discussing. . . umm. . . hats. You know, hats. Like, the head kind. ' 'There's another kind?' Lindsey asked. 'Hey, Jeff?' Tad said. 'If your mom needs any evidence to prove that you're retarded, let me know. I'd be glad to record you talking to Lindsey. I'm pretty sure that would do the trick.
I sought to reform minstrelsy among refined people by making words suitable to their taste, instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong to some songs of that order. . . . Some of my songs should be performed in a pathetic, not a comic style.
He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.
911 was my first day teaching at Harvard University. My classes were all canceled and I got back to town two days later. I'm one of those people who doesn't think the world has changed any at all since 911. It just seemed to be almost inevitable, something like that. That's one of the reasons why the backstory of Fay Grim goes all the way back into the '80s. I was trying to sketch out the continuity of all this hanky-panky between the security agencies of the world.
Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.