Robert Cormier Quotes

“Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.”

“I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.”

“I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'”

“I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.”

“I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.”

“Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.”

“I wonder if it's a special sin to lie to a nun”

“The cheese stands aloneThe cheese stands aloneHeigh-ho the merry-oThe cheese stands alone”

“The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.”

“He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.”