But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

Write what you know.

Well, everybody does it that way, Huck.""Tom, I am not everybody.

They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.

Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life.

Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying.

Children are like sponges

Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man write about a man.

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up you fight to the finish.

Brighter than fireflies upon the Uji River are your words in the dark, Beloved.

People empty me. I have to get away to refill.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

Transformation doesn't have to be deep, dark and mysterious. If you screw up, fine - laugh at yourself, learn and move on.

I was a huge 'Sopranos' fan, obviously.

Unfortunately a lot of Bristol's creativity just gets marooned in Bristol. It is a cool place though, maybe too laidback for its own good.

Design theorists are no friends of theistic evolution.