And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.

Junie B. Jones. The B stands for Beatrice. Except, I don't like Beatrice. I just like B and that's all.

A little glitter can turn your whole day around.

I don't really believe in pretending to be happy when you're not. Mostly I believe that you should burden your friends with your problems.

Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.

My senior year of high school, I was voted Wittiest. So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.

Can't we be friends?' I hate your guts, Frankovitch' Can't our guts be friends?

I don't even like clowns. Clowns are not normal people.

I find the term perfect child to be an oxymoron.

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303

As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world.

If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.

There was a part of her she hadn’t yet allowed to be born because it was too beautiful for this place

There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now.

I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.

There might come a point where I don't want to be in this industry at all.

I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.

It is not possible to be incidentally a Christian. The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing.