God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging.
On Valentine's Day, the Spirit Club plastered the school with red streamersand pink balloons and red and pink hearts. It looked like Clifford the Big Red Dog ate a flock of flamigoes and then barfed his guts up.
Never underestimate yourself
There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.
The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading.
But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.
The tournament means so much to me as well as the things I do in Africa. I thought it could also work well together.
Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.
Self praise is no praise at all.
It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).