"When it's in the slot, give it the lot!"

“I don't know much about cars," Joyce said, "but I think someone took my engine.”

“My father and I, we can't soothe each other. I'm too young, he's too old, and we don't know how to talk anymore if we ever did”

Source : Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.245, Scholastic Inc.

“The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion.”

“It scares me when the Europeans demand more and more democracy. It sounds like times past, when people here demanded more and more socialism.”

“If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.”

“I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.”

“There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.”

“How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.”