Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary.

I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.

Never get into a pissin' contest with a skunk." Mary Jo R.

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

I think I went through puberty. I'm, like, 20 now and I was, like, 17 then, ... You know, I've experienced different things and am having a lot more fun with it.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

In war is it who's right, or who's left?

You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

Certain writers have it very precise and there's not much room to add something.

It's always fun to do action and explosion, but I really enjoyed directing the emotion of the actors.

Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" he said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes."

I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.