AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

I have 365-days thankful notes. What a sacred-thanks?

He was too simple to be complex

The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.

When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that.

All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful!

More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.

The Left, in a general sense, is very much atomized. We live in highly atomized societies. People are pretty much alone; it's you and your iPad.

Start small and dream big.