“But now Nature starts doing things. The hormones start rolling and those old testicles start producing and all the rest of it--like breathing. You don't go around asking for it. It happens. It happened to me when I was twelve.… — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
“This sex thing. We never used to be hung up like this. Nature doesn't give little kids problems except when there's some kind of an accident--like that eight-year-old South American girl that had a baby. But that's practically a mutation,… — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
“Once inside, Dennis almost keeled over from the smell of cooked cabbage. Why was it that any girl he took out had a house… — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A child's parents should be able to forbid their son or daughter from reading a book of mine or anyone else's. However, those same… — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
“There's no one else to blame. No Bores or Old Ladies or Norton or Assassins waiting at the bridge.” — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
“The speeches! They were filled with borrowed things--borrowed over and over again until the words were nothing more than a series of clichés.” — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
“I really hate it when a teacher has to show that she isn't behind the times by using some expression which sounds so up-to-date… — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
She thinks she knows everything that goes on inside me, and she doesn’t know a thing. What did she want from me – to… — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
“They ought to bury people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries.” — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Zindel Copy Share Image
