I wanted to love my father. I wanted to, but I didn't. Sometimes I didn't even like him. he hadn't been a guy you could really get next to, because in a way he was never where you thought he was.

Let me think Thinking is all I have If wisdom is a pretense Then let me pretend to be wise

Sometimes, when things look terrible...you just need to find the right move to turn the whole game around. When you find it you feel great.

If I'm going to have a fight I got to see the win in it so I'll know what I'm fighting for.

I am too real not to know that real will kill me I am too street not to know what the streets hold for me

Once i began to read I began to exist

Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge.

I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets all up in you and you can't control it after a while. Then they really got you.

In a sane world, we would be heroes. Teachers would applaud as we walked into the school. There is the smart one, the one who wants to be a writer. And there is the runner.

The ideas I found in books helped me imagine a life I wanted to live.

Fools commit suicide and think they're doing themselves a favor.

Nothing sounds better than being away from this mess. Nothing sounds better right now than getting higher than the hole I'm in.