Quotes from Robert Lipsyte

It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward.

You are not a mere spectator at a contest between cancer cells and killer drugs. Your attitude is important. Your will to get healthy. People give up; sometimes it seems easier to die than hang in there, go the distance... You've got to be your own hero. People need to find things inside themselves they never knew were there.

Police, you under arrest!

Here to win. Not to make 'em mad

Sometimes I'm not sure I understand this generation." "They got to find their own way," said Aunt Pearl. "Same as we did.

Don't listen to that crowd, no one's hitting them

Henry would never know how good it could feel when a running wind chilled the sweat in your hair