An occasional foray into negative emotions makes feeling normal that much sweeter.

Don't let the brownies bite.

False humility is more insulting than open pride!

In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences.

An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.

Running toward danger is foolhardy. ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.

FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.

Hard to call it a party without sardines.

I'm convinced my heart knew who it belonged to, long before I met her.

The things we don’t stress tend to turn out best. Trust and let go.

I don't believe in God, don't believe in the devil. Unless you want to count my mother. She might be Satan's sister, I suppose.

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH REAL HARD

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

The kiss....was not meant to seduce, it was meant to mark a woman's soul. Chloe

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.