Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay.

Kate felt very offended. 'I am not an elf,' she insisted. 'I'm an Englishwoman!

For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?

Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.

Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat!

Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.

Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.

Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.

Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.

They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.

I like a mysterious man. I like a man who reads and is knowledgeable about the world, but who doesn’t have to brag about it.

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

Donald Trump has built a business through hard times and through good times. He's brought an extraordinary business acumen, he's employed tens of thousands of people in America.

Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.