Quote by Paul Zindel

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

“When are you getting married?' 'After graduation, stupid.”

— Paul Zindel

“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

“There's no one else to blame. No Bores or Old Ladies or Norton or Assassins waiting at the bridge.”

— Paul Zindel

“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

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

“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

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

— Paul Zindel

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

“They ought to bury people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries.”

— Paul Zindel

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

“The mustard lined his lips. At one point a strand of sauerkraut was smeared against his chin.”

— Paul Zindel