Paul Zindel famous quotes

Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.
-- Paul Zindel

#Would Be #Made

In fact, the thing Lorraine and I liked best about the Pigman was that he didn't go around saying we were cards or jazzy or cool or hip. He said we were delightful . . .
-- Paul Zindel

#Facts #Hips #Cards

She thinks she knows everything that goes on inside me, and she doesn’t know a thing. What did she want from me – to tell the truth all the time? To run around saying it did matter to me that I live in a world where you can grow old and be alone and have to get down on your hands and knees and beg for friends? A place where people just sort of forget about you because you get a little old and your mind’s a bit senile or silly? Did she think that didn’t bother me underneath?
-- Paul Zindel

#Running #Silly #Thinking

Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.
-- Paul Zindel

#Being Yourself #Cutting #Hair

I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it's necessary. I have to tell stories because that's the way the wiring went in.
-- Paul Zindel

#Self Esteem #Giving #Stories

It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.
-- Paul Zindel

#Thinking #Talking #Nuts

You're a bore, I said to me. You're puny. You're lacking in quality, like a pair of factory-rejected Fruit of the Loom shorts. And this was without considering any sexual problems, since I've never had sex with anyone except myself.
-- Paul Zindel

#Sex #Quality #Pairs

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."

I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.

Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.

Faith does not increase, nor does it decrease; because a diminution in it would be unbelief.

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.

He'd made sure i had something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.