A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

When people ask me how come I have written over three hundred books my response to them is take advantage of time.

Remember: Bad timing equals great plot twists.

Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?

Don't forget to turn your clocks back today if you don't want your clocks to be set to the right time.

Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!

I cannot change others, but I can influence others... we can't change people, but we can and we do influence people, and we do it every single day.

I looked for the church and I found it in the world; I looked for the world and I found it in the church.

Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but I'm from the Jersey Shore.

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

Everybody with a helmet on is in the mix.