We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better.Then it melts.The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Mark Twain

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

John Keats

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Warren Buffett

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

Will Rogers

A book is kind of like a good Horcrux, if we can imagine that -- a piece of the writer's soul, preserved in a physical object for all time, and changing the lives of all those who come in contact with it.

Cheryl B. Klein

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

George Barr McCutcheon

experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other

Benjamin Franklin

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

George Eliot

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Pierre De Beaumarchais

Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.

Jesse Jackson