“He carried a burden like a shadow that followed him everywhere.”

“Dismiss all the noise out there and you might just be amazed.”

"I guess I can still run after all.”

“This was to be their final act of disrespect.”

“A group of women rushed me screaming and kicking and punching. One of them took off her shoe and hit me with it.”

“No way, you gotta catch me.”

“In my mind, in our living room, by watching Tarzan on TV for a year.”

“Maxie swung his lunchbox as hard as he could with the flat side hitting Ray, right on the top of the head. He hit him so hard that the box, sprung open, sending a sandwich air born and a green apple rolling down the hill.”

“The train bitched and moaned as it squealed to a halt at State Street Station.”